I Cultivated for a Thousand Years, and You’re Only Now Experiencing the Spiritual Qi Revival

[I'm not satisfied with this story and won't be writing any more, so please don't read it.]

During her ascension tribulation, Jiang Qi transmigrated to the modern world.

She heard that this place was in the midst of a spiritual qi revival, and everyone was pursuing the state of qi refinement.

But when she went out and looked around, she discovered that all those people hailed by the world as "geniuses," "experts," and "grandmasters" had only attained a tiny fraction of her cultivation. They'd learned only a few insignificant tricks.

With a thousand years of cultivation behind her, she could move through the world with ease.

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That woman, Jiang Qi, came from a bankrupt family, was foolish, had poor natural talent, and couldn't cultivate qi. She was a complete waste in every possible way.

But at some point recently, people suddenly noticed that Jiang Qi was acting strangely.

Not only had she become more refined in her manner and cleaner and more distinguished in her bearing, she'd even changed her timid, sensitive personality. They'd also heard... that she was teaching herself qi cultivation?

Hah, she was obviously just putting on an act. Everyone knew she was a hopeless case.

Too bad you can only keep up an act for so long.

Just as everyone waited for the day when news would break that Jiang Qi couldn't keep pretending and had become a laughingstock again, they started seeing headline after headline:

Jiang Qi's spirit-gathering formation helped an eighty-year-old paralyzed man walk with ease!!

Jiang Qi punched a high-level qi refiner two miles away!!

J-J-J-Jiang Qi pulled the earth's dragon vein right out of the ground!!

The crowd was shocked and terrified, and hurriedly called in the greatest expert of the age.

Yes, yes! She's the monster. Master, hurry and subdue her! Wait, what's going on...? Master, why are you kneeling? And why are you calling her... Master?!

Wait, I thought you were pretending, but you were actually serious!

Damn it, she really pulled off the act!

Theme: Pretending is fun. I'll keep being a show-off in my next life.