Lin Mu transmigrated into the cultivation world with a cheat. Hoping to lie flat, he chose to join a small sect and live out his days there, planning to rely on his cheat to survive until immortality.
As soon as he arrived, the plain-looking faces of everyone in the sect, apart from the immortal-looking senior brother, put him at ease. This was clearly a sanctuary for people who wanted to lie flat.
Then he learned his senior brother's name.
You Wujin.
Only then did Lin Mu realize he had transmigrated into a novel. Once the senior brother became a cannon-fodder character, the whole sect would be doomed, and every last member would be slaughtered.
Lin Mu: ...
To avoid becoming cannon fodder, Lin Mu threw himself into hard work, only to discover he was useless at cultivation.
Everyone in the sect except the senior brother was useless at cultivation.
In both looks and talent, the senior brother was a hundred thousand miles from anything that could be called useless. But he was noble and upright, so upright it was downright wicked!
He was always stepping in when he saw injustice and drawing his sword to help. In the novel, he became cannon fodder while saving the protagonist.
To keep the whole sect from being doomed, Lin Mu decided to find a way to make his senior brother stronger.
As long as the senior brother was strong enough, no one could turn him into cannon fodder.
Then Lin Mu discovered that, while the other sect members might be hopeless at cultivation, they seemed to be very good at everything else.
When he needed medicinal herbs for alchemy, his second senior brother showed up with a hoe on his back, carrying a whole basket of thousand-year-old spirit herbs as if it were nothing. He smiled honestly. "If that's not enough, I can get more."
When he needed materials for crafting, his third senior sister arrived, covered in dust and accompanied by spirit beasts, then casually produced a storage bag full of rare treasures from heaven and earth. She slapped Lin Mu hard enough to nearly send him to his knees. "Good junior brother, whatever you need, your senior sister will find it for you."
For materials for arrays and talismans, there were also his fourth senior sister, fifth senior brother, and the others...
His master, grandmaster, uncles, and aunts were no ordinary people either.
Later, You Wujin, who should have become cannon fodder, drew his sword to help others and won battle after battle, becoming the undisputed number one in the cultivation world.
The sect, once shabby and run-down, became the greatest sect under heaven, its fame spreading far and wide.
Lin Mu mastered alchemy, crafting, arrays, and talismans alike. He became the man behind the greatest person under heaven and the greatest sect under heaven.
He couldn't help sighing. "Things didn't go as I originally planned, but surely I'll be able to live forever now."
Then why did his senior brother keep looking at him, tongue-tied?
You Wujin had been troubled lately.
His newest junior brother seemed to like him. Should he agree, or hold back a little before saying yes?
The rest of the sect: As expected, our youngest junior brother/disciple/grand-disciple/nephew is the most extraordinary one of all.
PS: Bottom Lin Mu, a reluctant workaholic with a powerful golden finger x top You Wujin, a righteous, aloof beauty who falls for him while plotting to win him over.
The other sect members don't have plain faces because they're ugly, just because they're rough around the edges. You Wujin, on the other hand, likes to dress up (not really), and pays more attention to his appearance.
(Blurb screenshotted on February 5, 2024)
Theme: Face difficulties together and discover what is truly good and beautiful