The Ancestress Gets Caught Up in a Rat Race in a Cultivation Novel

The System promised her that if she reached the pinnacle of the righteous path in this world, next time she could choose to become a beautiful, carefree, hands-off ancestor who did nothing but laze around. So Ran Ling worked herself to the bone cultivating for a hundred years in her previous world. Her efforts finally paid off. But when a dilapidated sect, looking utterly miserable, appeared before her, she still froze. She had to rebuild the sect, reclaim the territory it had lost, and yet no one in the entire sect had the strength to fight. They were all weaklings. Ran Ling: ??? Wasn’t she supposed to get the lazy-life script? This was clearly a pioneering-development story! From then on, the sect rose at the crack of dawn. They would sooner work themselves to death than let anyone else outwork them. The Ancestor patted a disciple on the head. “Only the most competitive of the competitive can rise above the rest. Remember, you’re the most competitive kid on the entire continent!” The disciple burned with enthusiasm. The sect’s elders: Why do I feel like the Ancestor is looking at us with a hint of disdain? “Maybe we’re not competitive enough.” A sect leader: Ancestor, it’s the hour of the Rat. You should get some rest. The other party: Rest, my foot! Can’t you see Ancestor Ran Ling from the sect across the way is still drawing talismans? “...” And just like that, the entire cultivation world became obsessed with outdoing one another. [Note] This continent is called Xuantian. The cultivation stages are: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deification, Void Refinement, Body Integration, Great Ascension, Tribulation Crossing, and Ascension.