After Transmigrating as a Good-for-Nothing, I Turned the Tables by Slacking Off in an Involution-Fueled Cultivation World

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Zhai Linglong transmigrates into a book set in the cultivation world, expecting to soar with the wind and fly on a sword.

But she never expected the original owner to be a good-for-nothing cannon-fodder character, who can barely even conjure a flame, let alone fly on a sword. She might as well stay grounded like a chicken.

It's a broken-engagement plot from the start. Zhai Linglong looks helplessly up at the sky, thinking that since she's bound to a System, she can at least start on a face-slapping journey.

But the System tells her to become a cook. Looking at the entire sect waiting for a meal, Zhai Linglong resigns herself to picking up the spatula.

As long as the green hills remain, there will be no shortage of firewood!

There's nothing in these desolate mountains. The whole sect goes out to dig up wild greens, then starts a livestream to collect tips. Life is so happy it could take flight!

The first task the System gives her is to adopt the biggest villain in the book, but he turns into a cat.

The System also wants her to get the original heroine together with the second male lead. That's way too hard. Time to lie flat.

Zhai Linglong: If my junior brother cultivates, I lie flat. If my senior sister cultivates, I lie flat. When the sect is about to be wiped out, I run for it! Cultivation comes down to one word: fun!

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The young lord of the Spirit Clan is ambushed and turned into a black cat. Legend says only a kiss from a spirit dragon can undo the curse, but spirit dragons have been gone for many years.

So he decides to search the world for its greatest treasures, making Ta Yun Mountain his first stop.

He doesn't find any treasures, but he does see the sect leader's daughter working as a cook.

He has to remember this and spread the gossip as soon as he gets back.

So Lou Xuanyu decides to follow the little cook around and learn about Ta Yun Mountain. Later, he discovers that she knows even less about the mountain than he does.

Lou Xuanyu: dead!

He wants to get away as fast as possible, but the little cook's food is unbelievably delicious. Lou Xuanyu wants to leave, but his stomach has already been won over.

Lou Xuanyu: Big Sister, could you help me find something?

Zhai Linglong: This guy is so sly, but he called me Big Sister!

Theme: As long as the green hills remain, there will be no shortage of firewood