Better to Fish Than Cultivate Immortality

I'm stuck on the case... I'll post a day late this time (hides face.jpg)

(Updates once a week at first. If I get a contract, it'll be three updates a week. If it gets an exclusive release, it'll update daily [my day runs from morning to the following morning].)

Wei Yuanzheng of the Wei family is an oddball in the cultivation world. He doesn't want to cultivate and spends all his time among ordinary people, obsessed with cosplay.

As he goes about his life, he realizes something seems off in the mortal world. The more he investigates, the more he realizes something seems off in the cultivation world, too.

Before long, he accidentally saves a whole world.

Along the way, he meets:

A body cultivator young lady with boyfriend-level strength;

A music cultivator who plays the qin unbearably badly;

A demon cultivator with a split personality. One half goes "teehee" at him, while the other half wants to make him go "teehee"...

But nobody really understands his ideal of living as an ordinary person.

Wei Yuanzheng: Taking it easy is great, giving up is wonderful. Let me be an ordinary person...

Uncle Ye Chen: Wei Yuanzheng, get over here!

Wei Yuanzheng: !!!

That familiar terror of having a parent call you by your full name!

Bonus scene:

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Immortal Venerable Jinghua: Come on, Yuanzheng, let me interview you. How does it feel to have saved the cultivation world?

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Wei Yuanzheng: I saved it by making the villain's goal public, only for countless people to hate me for shattering their dreams. It's ridiculous.

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Immortal Venerable Jinghua: Don't beat yourself up. Making their dreams come true would mean sacrificing the whole world. If anyone dares criticize you, I'll beat them up for you.

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Wei Yuanzheng: ? That's not necessary. But since we're talking, I want to ask you something. The saviors in the anime you watched before you transmigrated, were they all as miserable as me?

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Immortal Venerable Jinghua: Not too bad, right? You almost had to take the imperial examinations, were forced to play a few rounds of cultivation-world virtual reality, traveled all over to stop little animals from being released from their cages, and were hunted as the outlaw Zhang San...

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Wei Yuanzheng: And you call that not too bad?!

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Immortal Venerable Jinghua: Other saviors get forgotten by the whole world and turn into the Law of Cycles! What else would you call your situation?

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Wei Yuanzheng: ...I'd call it asking for trouble.

Warnings:

1. Contains some cosmic horror elements, but they're mainly a bit of plot-driving setup. There shouldn't be much cultivation combat, either. This is a nontraditional cultivation novel.

2. The characters mentioned at the start of the blurb will show up a little later. The "*" in the bonus scene marks an event. Yuanzheng is currently hard at work studying the Four Books and Five Classics.

3. No romance. If anything seems a little gay, it's just straight-guy behavior!

4. The overall tone is lighthearted, but that doesn't mean the protagonist has an easy ride all the time.

Theme: I slack off and refuse to cultivate, but I'm still a good kid