Wake Up, the Animals Are Lining Up Outside!

Coming soon: What Dao Do You Cultivate, Fellow Daoist?

[Optimistic, Easygoing Shopkeeper vs. Loyal, Quiet Cat Shop Assistant]

(Please let it build up before reading! If you like it, please give it a chance (づ￣3￣)づ)

Su Yunling runs a pet shop and also works as a groomer, but she accidentally transmigrates to a cultivation world.

Everyone in this world is obsessed with cultivation, but her spiritual roots are too poor and she can't understand the cultivation manuals, so her father exiles her to the back mountain.

What's so great about the back mountain? It's spacious and sparsely populated. If she can't cultivate, then she'll open a shop and get back to her old line of work. Who's afraid?

Luckily, she also has a cat to serve as the shop's mascot. It can't be kissed or cuddled, but it can gather materials and attract customers. A model employee, indeed.

A fox demon blocks the path of a powerful man. "Wait a minute. How do you take care of your fur? Why does it look so shiny?"

The man pulls out the pamphlet Su Yunling had pressed into his hands and begins reading in a flat voice: "Lingyun Grooming is located on the Su Clan's back mountain. We're currently offering 12 percent off. Lingyun Grooming: you can trust us."

The fox demon hesitates. "If I go there, can I be just like you?"

"Yeah."

Soon, a long line forms outside the shop, with everyone demanding that she groom them. The shop employees hurry to wake Su Yunling. The demon cultivators are lining up outside!

Su Yunling: Don't rush, one at a time!

1. A little slow to warm up, but this is NOT a shop-management story!!!

2. Optimistic, easygoing woman x loyal, quiet cat man. The opposites-attract pairing never gets old!

3. Cultivation ranks: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Tribulation Transcendence, Deification. The heroine stays at Foundation Establishment and won't cultivate any further. This makes up 70% of the plot.

Also coming soon: What Dao Do You Cultivate, Fellow Daoist?

The Gao family is famous for making incense. For three generations, their ancestors have used flowers to create fragrances. Perhaps their perseverance moved the heavens, because Gao Chuyao finally develops spiritual roots.

Gao Chuyao is immediately sent to a cultivation sect. Unfortunately, the grand sect looks down on such unorthodox practices and kicks her straight into the lowest-ranked disciples' palace. If she fails the test a year later, she'll be sent home.

Gao Chuyao thinks, My family is famous for making incense. How can that possibly be an unorthodox practice?

That is, until she opens the doors to the disciples' palace. Inside is a gathering of all sorts of talented people: vegetable sellers, cooks, dog trainers, acrobats...

Gao Chuyao's mouth twitches. She must have opened the wrong door.

She closes it and opens it again. Everyone inside stares at her intently and asks, "Fellow Daoist, what Dao do you cultivate?"

Some time later, Gao Chuyao eats roast meat and watches a dog perform tricks while selling incense in the sect.

This life doesn't seem so bad after all. But why does someone keep stealing her incense?

When Gao Chuyao finally catches the thief, she discovers it's a little black snake. It loves to coil around her like an ornament, so she might as well keep it as emergency rations.

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Ji Cheng'an was once a Buddhist cultivation prodigy. After being ambushed, his soul fell into the Animal Realm, one of the six paths of reincarnation, and he became a crippled black snake.

He lost all six senses and should have died in darkness, but just before his death, he smelled a faint floral fragrance, and his senses returned.

Buddhist cultivators seek to purify the six senses, but snakes are jealous by nature and lustful by temperament. So Ji Cheng'an ignores Gao Chuyao during the day, but secretly coils around her at night.

Premise: There are many roads to success.