My Sect Is Too Laid-Back, So I Have to Push Myself

Farming / Both leads are virgins / One-on-one romance / Everyone's favorite / Ensemble cast

Warm, nurturing, top-tier combat strength, gloomy and insecure senior brother x Clever, quick-witted, resilient, bright, and lively junior sister

The Baimei Sect is the top sect in the cultivation world. In this hypercompetitive sect, where no one sucks up to men or women and everyone only respects strength, even the dogs that pass by devote themselves to cultivation. Yet a few oddballs always drift against the current: Group Gui, the bottom-ranked team of five outer disciples.

Jiang Lingxue, a mycology major, transmigrated into a book and became a mushroom in the cultivation world. To complete her collection of SSR mutant mushrooms, she went to the Baimei Sect and became a disciple, at least in name: an outer disciple.

Her fellow disciples spent their days teasing cats and dogs, bragging and chatting, playing cards, and listening to music. Their lives were wonderfully varied, and they had no idea what the words "outer disciple" or "cultivation" meant.

The moment Jiang Lingxue saw how her fellow disciples were, she knew she'd come to the right sect.

Life lying flat was far too comfortable. Then one day, Jiang Lingxue's conscience finally stirred, and she asked, "If we keep this up, won't we get laid off?"

Jiang Lingxue's words came true.

Group Gui had ranked dead last on the performance charts for years and made enemies everywhere. At last, they faced a historic mass layoff. Her sectmates were far too lazy, so Jiang Lingxue, who wanted to keep lying flat and growing mushrooms, was forced to get competitive:

While other sword cultivators were busy sweeping across the fourteen continents with a single frost-cold strike, slaying enemies and astounding everyone, Jiang Lingxue cultivated an SSR Ghost Mushroom as her bodyguard.

While other alchemists tasted hundreds of herbs and blew the roofs off their pill rooms time and again before refining top-grade spirit pills, Jiang Lingxue cultivated an SR Mimic Mushroom that could reproduce a spirit pill's effects exactly.

While other talisman cultivators combed through ancient texts and poured all their spiritual power into drawing talismans, Jiang Lingxue cultivated an SR Mystery Box Mushroom whose talismans could instantly defeat cultivators of the same level.

Jiang Lingxue: "I really don't know how to cultivate. I'm just a mushroom farmer."

Jiang Lingxue happened to discover that the essential condition for a mushroom to mutate was a heavenly tribulation, and that the tribulation faced by a high-level cultivator breaking through to the next realm was the best kind. In other words, as long as she made sure the person breaking through successfully ascended, she could use the tribulation to grow mutant mushrooms.

So Jiang Lingxue set her sights on the most powerful senior brother in the sect: Liu Zhaoxi, the original novel's top-tier fighter and big villain.

Liu Zhaoxi had been planning to fake his death by failing a breakthrough and changing his secret identity. Suddenly, he felt someone had their eye on him.

When Liu Zhaoxi first met Jiang Lingxue, she ruined his plan. He truly considered hacking her to death with his sword, but still let her become his junior sister.

In his heart, Liu Zhaoxi was insecure. Cold shoulders, contempt, schemes, and bullying had defined his life. Taciturn, he was burned to ashes in a raging fire, then tempered and reborn in its flames. He disguised himself as someone lovable and carried out his revenge step by step.

Then, as Liu Zhaoxi gradually fell for her and prepared to confess his feelings, he discovered that Jiang Lingxue's heart belonged to someone else. His long-held fear of losing her drove him mad. He used underhanded means to make Jiang Lingxue agree to marry him, then threatened her: "If you don't show up on our wedding day, I'll kill myself."

#He planned to fake his death, but his junior sister's mushrooms healed him. Now what?

#Transmigrating into a book: A diary observing my frail, sickly senior brother on his way to ascension

#Too scared to cultivate, so I maxed out my plant attributes.

#My senior brother's acting strange? Better make him drink some talisman ash water.

Theme: I ascended by growing mushrooms.