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Beware of Chicken: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel

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Cultivation, set aside for farm life

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Cultivation, set aside for farm life

Jin Rou’s cultivation ambitions end with his death—and a new life in another man’s body. Faced with the prospect of martial challenges and violence, he opts for rural work instead: tending fields, building a home, and worrying over his harvest. But spiritual energy has a way of complicating ordinary farm routines, including after Jin Rou feeds Spirit Herbs to his pet rooster. The setup brings xianxia cultivation into a slice-of-life frame, pairing martial-arts fantasy elements with practical concerns of village life. This is the first volume of a progression-fantasy series.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in cultivation and martial-arts fantasy with a farming focus.
  • For readers who enjoy slice-of-life stories centered on everyday work and rural living.
  • For readers seeking the opening volume of a progression-fantasy series.

Themes

Cultivation and spiritual powerFarm life and self-sufficiencyChoosing an ordinary life over martial conflictThe unexpected effects of spiritual energy

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Book overview

A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about . . . farming

Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A master of martial arts. A lord of spiritual power. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I'm stuck in his body.

Arrogant Masters? Heavenly Tribulations? All that violence and bloodshed? Yeah, no thanks. I'm getting out of here.

Farm life sounds pretty great. Tilling a field by hand is fun when you've got the strength of ten men--though maybe I shouldn't have fed those Spirit Herbs to my pet rooster. I'm not used to seeing a chicken move with such grace . . . but Qi makes everything kind of wonky, so it's probably fine.

Instead of a lifetime of battle, my biggest concerns are building a house, the size of my harvest, and the way the girl from the nearby village glares at me when I tease her.

A slow, simple, fulfilling life in a place where nothing exciting or out of the ordinary ever happens . . . right?

The first volume of the blockbuster progression-fantasy series--with more than 20 million views on Royal Road--now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

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