My Sacred Mountain Hides Wonders

(Not traditional xianxia. Divine ascension is similar to Lord of the Mysteries, with elements of tower defense, collecting and nurturing, and beast taming.)

The Heavenly Dao bears down upon the world, while the Earthly Dao crumbles. At eighteen, Li You entered the Great Era in a body not his own and took charge of a sacred mountain.

His awakened talent was [Scenery Shifting]: he could replace one of his own landscapes each day and move one unclaimed landscape each month.

While others built temples with four beams and eight pillars, he cultivated a little ginseng-fruit orchard;

while others shaped divine statues from bone and flesh, he tended Fallen Phoenix Slope;

while others fought tooth and nail over resources, he lounged beneath a money tree, counting his coins.

Later, his fellow cultivators realized something was off:

You entered the world at the same time as the rest of us, so how are you already the equal of an ancient deity?

How come the spirit beasts I painstakingly raised can’t even beat your pig, which demands wages every day?

Li You stood beneath the Mirror of the Sun, patting the Heavenly Boar’s wicked avatar, Jiuzong, beneath him. He glanced up at the Nine-leaf Sword Orchid and sighed:

“I’m telling you, I’m a proper mountain lord... Do you believe me?”