Lu Li has lived in a secluded paradise since childhood, relying on one another with her master, the Real Person Guangguai.
Her master often says, "The outside world is full of lunatics."
When Lu Li turns five hundred, Real Person Guangguai ascends.
Before leaving, her master apologizes and tells her that she has the right to choose whether or not to go outside.
Lu Li thinks, Then I'll go.
Only after going out into the world does Lu Li understand why her master never let her leave.
It's because she's so weak.
It turns out that the "cultivation" her master taught her was a mishearing. It was actually "showing off," meaning the ability to praise yourself. Those who are good at it can praise themselves for an entire hour without repeating anything, while Lu Li can only manage to say, "I'm a good person," after struggling for ages.
Her master also got the stages of cultivation wrong. They're not "Qi Refining," "Foundation Building," and "Golden Core," but "sorting Qi," "building a chicken coop," and "golden eggs." They refer to being able to pick high-quality chicken breeds by smell, knowing how to build a nest for chickens, and raising chickens that lay prize-winning eggs. Lu Li is ashamed to admit that she's been in seclusion without food for hundreds of years. She really has no idea how to raise chickens.
After joining a sect, Lu Li discovers that they often need to "refine eggs," take "written tests," and "guess herbs," but all she knows how to do is "refine pills," spar, and gather herbs. The other disciples put all kinds of bird eggs and medicinal herbs into an "egg-refining furnace" and produce beautiful "eggs," but Lu Li only knows how to refine pills with herbs. Add an egg, and the whole thing becomes a mess. Lu Li can spar with demons, but whenever she takes a "written test," her answers are nowhere near the official ones. She can identify and gather all kinds of precious herbs, but she doesn't know the terrain outside and can't "guess" where to find them at all.
Everyone in the sect feels sorry for Lu Li. "Our frail little junior sister, who can't even take care of herself, must be protected by us!"
Lu Li thinks she's weak, sure, but she's not so helpless that she can't take care of herself...
Lu Li tries to explain: "I just haven't had anything to eat in a long time, so I'm not very good at cooking this egg..."
Her senior brothers and sisters: "Oh no! Our poor little junior sister! Her life must have been so hard that she went without food for ages!"
Lu Li looks at the money stuffed into her arms: "...Huh?"
After Lu Li's explanations, her senior brothers and sisters become even more certain that she's a poor, frail little junior sister who can't take care of herself!
Later, a great demon appears out of nowhere. He never praises himself, yet can take down a whole crowd of people who are busy praising themselves. He has no idea how to raise chickens, yet can destroy everyone's chicken coops. The pills he makes never contain eggs, but are a hundred times more potent...
The great demon sneers. "Ignorant humans! You can't even tell that your entire lives are full of mistaken characters! All I need to do is cultivate normally for a year or two, and none of you will be a match for m, "
The great demon doesn't get to finish.
Lu Li casually tries a fire spell, and he burns to ash.
Lu Li shakes her head. "If you're even weaker than me, don't come out and embarrass yourself. Where does that confidence come from? You even acted like you knew what you were doing."
Great Demon: ...What happened to 'our frail little junior sister who can't take care of herself'?!
Theme: There is warmth everywhere in the world.
What a great idea, looking forward to it