Game of Cultivation

With five spiritual roots and assigned to the chores courtyard, Chen Fan is the slowest cultivator in the sect—three years to reach Qi Refinement Layer 1 while others achieve Core Formation. No golden finger, no old master, even his storage ring is broken. He is thrown into the medicine garden of Luoyun Sect, tasked with watering, weeding, and recording spirit herb patterns. Fellow disciples mock him as useless; he does not argue. When beast tides attack, he grinds them down with a hoe and formations. When poison miasma threatens, he sacrifices his own cultivation to give pills to a poorer junior. He says, 'It's okay to be slow.' At the sect tournament, others show off; he relies on endurance. When prodigies humiliate him, he remains calm, saying, 'Cultivation is about cultivating oneself, not showing off to others.' When demon cultivators besiege the sect, he uses the Five Elements Formation he comprehended in the garden to save half the sect. When his best friend dies saving him, he weeps all night, then goes into seclusion for ten years to understand 'life and death are ordinary.' At the Nine Provinces Tournament, no one expects much from him, but he shatters the arena with a single 'ordinary punch.' When the Demon God descends and prodigies are consumed by heart demons, he alone stands firm as lightning strikes, his mind like still water. Only at the end do people realize—this most ordinary chore disciple has walked the most extraordinary path. Returning to simplicity is true invincibility. He just smiles, returns to the garden, and continues watering, weeding, and watching the sunset.