If you can't hold on to the peak of success, go work at a factory that provides room and board.
Chen Mo graduated from a junior college and got a job at an electronics factory.
On his first day at work, a System voice rang out in his mind.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have joined the top-tier Artifact Refining Sect: the Xinghui Sect. Current identity: outer-sect servant disciple.]
Chen Mo looked at the labor contract in his hand and fell silent.
He thought the System had gone crazy.
Then the cultivation technique the System transmitted sent true qi through his body, and a piece of braised pork from the cafeteria gave him Constitution +1.
He was utterly stunned.
From then on, while everyone else slacked off at work, Chen Mo cultivated.
He still got paid, and his cultivation kept advancing.
System, I joined an electronics factory, not the Zixiao Continent.
[Confirmed. The Host is in the cultivation world: the Zixiao Continent.]
Fine. If you say so.
Later, spiritual qi revival swept across the world, and eight billion people entered the age of cultivation overnight.
Some searched the entire internet for cultivation techniques. Some knelt outside sect gates, begging to be taken in. Others fought like mad over a single page of a fragmentary manual.
Chen Mo opened his status panel and stared at it for a long time.
[Current cultivation level: Peak Mahayana]
Then he closed the panel and bent down to pick up the next screw.
Cultivation is all about keeping a normal state of mind.