After Three Hundred Years Hiding in the Cultivation World, I Suddenly Realized I'm the Strongest

[I’ve started a new no-CP story, "Am I the Only One in This Sect Who’s Practicing Immortal Cultivation for Real?" Please add it to your favorites!] When a paranoid person transmigrates into a cruel, cold world of immortal cultivation, Xun Yuan’s response is: One word, survive! The world is full of sects, the aristocratic clans are brutal, the hierarchy is rigid, and everyone around him is a scheming old fox. Convinced he has little talent and is a naive fool, Xun Yuan decides to max out his defense and develop a full set of skills. He’s determined to become someone useful to others! So after holing up in his sect for three hundred years, the elders can’t take it anymore and kick Xun Yuan out the door. He’s on edge and careful in everything he does. Even when he meets a village elder, he’s unfailingly polite. “Hello, senior. My name is Xun Yuan.” The old man cries out, “Xun Yuan?! The number-one cultivator in the world?” Xun Yuan: ? His first thought: Wait, am I not just an obscure little weakling? How do you know who I am, old man? This is definitely a plot! Then: Yikes... I share a name with the number-one cultivator in the world. What if he thinks I’m insulting him and kills me in a fit of rage? Finally: It really sounds like they mean me! Aaaaaah! (terrified face) A little scene: Xun Yuan has always thought he has no talent for cultivation, so he spends all his time developing various skills, like crafting artifacts, alchemy, and spirit-plant cultivation... Master: Xiao Yuan, your peers have already reached Foundation Establishment. Why are you still stuck at the late Qi Refining stage? Xun Yuan: Yikes. And so, after spending the entire night at it, Xun Yuan successfully reaches Foundation Establishment. His peers, who have only just entered Qi Refining: ... Content warning: Genius protagonist + everyone projects their own assumptions onto him. Everyone is convinced Xun Yuan is incredible, and his talent really is the best! To put it in numbers, the maximum talent in this world is 100, and his is 10,000 :) But he’s the best at keeping his head down. Blurb for "Am I the Only One in This Sect Who’s Practicing Immortal Cultivation for Real?": One second, Zhou Dian is in a bustling city full of traffic. The next, he’s in a lush, primeval forest. Just like that, the story Zhou Dian’s been handed changes from a loser turning his life around through the college entrance exams to a clueless idiot trying to survive in the wilderness. Zhou Dian: ...Fine. Fortunately, Zhou Dian is soon rescued by a group of people. And they’re cultivators! Zhou Dian shamelessly joins their sect, thinking he can finally relax, only to discover that they practice immortal cultivation through imagination! What’s more... His master is a raving lunatic, constantly muttering that darkness is covering the earth and the world is about to end. His senior sister never stops talking about instances, reincarnation, and infinity. His second senior brother mutters about Lovecraftian horrors and sanity values, among other things he can’t understand. His third senior brother is always saying that the supernatural creatures are impossible for humans to kill, and that they’re everywhere in this world... Zhou Dian, who’s read novels in all these genres: ...Wow. Is this how you imagine practicing immortal cultivation? Looking at the talisman he’s just drawn, while his dantian diligently absorbs spiritual energy, Zhou Dian can only think that a normal person’s life is as lonely as snow. So it turns out that he’s the only one in this sect who’s practicing immortal cultivation for real! Meanwhile, in a place Zhou Dian can’t see, five people who have just completed their respective missions stare silently at a hazy, rippling mass of mist, as if it were breathing. Stop it, Zhou Dian. How can you practice immortal cultivation in this world?! Infinite spaces, Lovecraftian corruption, supernatural entities returning, and rule-based horror stories... All kinds of higher-dimensional powers invade this world, and humanity struggles to survive, slowly piecing together the rules of survival. Until one day, a high school student suddenly disappears. Afterward, a sect is quietly established. P.S. This is not a serious immortal cultivation story. Theme: Reach the summit through steady effort and your own strength