I Just Want to Keep a Low Profile, but My Sect Is Forcing Me to Be Its Leader

The four old men stared at her like four hungry wolves eyeing a plump chicken.

Shen Qingyuan transmigrated to a cultivation world and got the most outrageous golden finger in history: stay out of trouble and your cultivation rises, stick your neck out and you'll be struck by lightning. While everyone else cultivates by risking their lives, she cultivates by avoiding trouble. After three years of keeping her head down, she reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, but the entire sect thought she was a good-for-nothing. She hid in the woodshed for a nap, only for the sect master to drag her out and force her into the position of sect master.

"I don't want the job! Whoever wants it can take it!"

The whole sect thought she was insulting them. When a genius disciple came to challenge her, she dodged instinctively and casually waved a hand, sending everyone flying with spiritual energy.

"I didn't do anything! He fell over by himself!"

No one believed her.

And so a sect master who only wanted to slack off was forced onto the path to the pinnacle of the cultivation world.

The whole sect broke through after eating the tofu stew she made. The steamed buns she baked were revered as "Primordial Chaos Buns." She sneezed, and a Golden Core genius from the Heavenly Sword Sect forfeited on the spot. Her disciples stole her diary and compiled it into The Essential Heart Sutra of Staying Out of Trouble. Even the old man who swept the outhouse copied it and hung it on the wall to study every day.

The more she tried to keep a low profile, the more explosive her reputation became. The more she avoided trouble, the more trouble came looking for her. She only wanted to quietly eat a bowl of noodles in Hundred Flavors Alley, but cultivators from across the world lined up to drink ginger and jujube tea made with plain rice water from her place. Even the Heavenly Dao itself became an old woman who joined the very back of the line every day.

"The Heavenly Dao isn't afraid of you. It's afraid of itself."

The ultimate secret of staying out of trouble: eat your fill first, then stay alive.

A hilarious, trope-subverting cultivation romp about staying out of trouble, with a huge ensemble cast, nonstop laughs, and stress-free fun from beginning to end.