Don't Panic, Let Me Level Up First

[A deadpan, adorable uke who always thinks everyone else is weird x an ethereal, love-addled seme]

[A silly, cozy cultivation-and-infrastructure-building feel-good story, not traditional cultivation]

Shen Yao transmigrates back a thousand years and gets bound to an infrastructure-building System.

The System declares grandly: “Buddy, let's give the ancients a taste of modern civilization!”

Shen Yao looks up and sees cultivators flying on swords. He looks down and sees black demonic energy “gurgling” out through a crack in the barrier.

“Yeah, that's... quite a bit of a shock.”

Only then does the System realize it's transmigrated to the wrong place.

Shen Yao is a ninth-level Qi Refiner, an artifact maker with a five-element mixed spirit root who only knows how to smith metal, and an assistant.

The sect: An eighteenth-rate bottom-of-the-barrel sect with not even a blessed cultivation site to its name. It can only settle in a small town in a no-man's-land between humans, demons, and devils.

The master: Looks like a respectable human being, but is apparently a demon cultivator. He has no idea how to raise people, so all his disciples have turned out bizarre.

Eldest senior sister: A heartless-sword cultivator with a bonded sword that keeps wanting to become her cultivation partner. Whenever she refuses, it runs away from home. Her daily routine: forge swords, search for sword.

Second senior brother: A medicine cultivator with a cruel touch. Anything he grows dies.

Little junior sister: A beast tamer dedicated to raising the fiercest spirit pet, but she fails every time.

In the morning, Shen Yao helps eldest senior sister forge swords. In the afternoon, he helps second senior brother grow flowers. At night, he helps little junior sister pet cats.

In his head is a brainless System that yells at him every day to hurry up and build the strongest city wall.

As the only Qi Refiner in the sect who needs to eat, Shen Yao feels like he's the only normal one in a family of five, counting the System.

Years later, the cultivators high above are astonished to discover an incredibly powerful sect in the frontier lands.

The demon realm invades again and again, but the little town that should have been destroyed long ago survives thanks to them.

They have the strongest barriers and the sharpest magical weapons. Even the trees, flowers, cats, and dogs they raise have impressive combat power. The ordinary people in town can fight cultivators who have practiced for a hundred years, as long as they wield Tingyun Sect's magical weapons.

Tingyun Sect is terrifying indeed!

Rumor has it that the entire Tingyun Sect consists of just five master and disciple. Wherever they go, not a blade of grass or a single treasure is left behind. They're like locusts passing through.

Later, someone disguises himself and goes to investigate. “How do you do it?”

The other person replies, “We build infrastructure.”

Everyone exclaims: So this person is the cultivation partner of the number one man in the Immortal Alliance! No wonder, no wonder!

Ji Jian, sitting at home when a wife falls from the sky: ???

[Important]

1. Both leads are powerful.

Theme: Take your fate into your own hands.