The Scientific Outlook on Cultivation

I was a corporate drone, then suddenly transmigrated into the body of an outer disciple in some huge cultivation sect... I'm shaking in my boots. But... why isn't cultivation anything like it is in the novels? Weren't transmigrators supposed to be chosen ones, constantly picked on and ostracized, then get to face-slap everyone, have the senior sister and junior sister throw themselves at them, and win over a bunch of lackeys with a couple of casual remarks? This life doesn't seem to be going that way at all? Thinking this, Lu Rending took a bite of a stalk of spirit rice. It was crunchy, sweet, and delicious! P.S. This is not a farming-focused cultivation novel, and the protagonist is male.

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