Beware of Chicken: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel

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I felt at first like it was going to be a 3-star read (perfectly acceptable by my standards), but it grew into 4 stars, and then 5 (and then down to 4 again after a cooling-off period), progressing like the progression fantasy it is. It reached blindly for the light, grasping eagerly, desperately for the one that was healing it's wounds. This is for the people who are tired of day to day life and just want to go live on a farm somewhere, but not a real farm, because that’s a lot of work, but a magic farm. The hardest problems aren't ones that power can solve, they're universal, internal, and interpersonal. Yun shook his head, and after giving the stone one last good rub he turned to a large stone that he had been practicing with.

Plus, everything felt like it was trying to get the perfect set-up for volume 2, so a lot had to happen in a condensed time frame with no care for the overall pacing.This reads a little like a deconstruction of the genre, what with all the criticism peppered at the arrogance, entitlement, and overall destructive nature of cultivators, presumably the Canadian author speaking with the protagonist's voice against the more problematic aspects on an otherwise beloved genre. Written by CasualFarmer which I think is a pseudonym, it is apparently very well regarded on webnovel sites that cater to its genre. What sold me, in addition to the very good quality writing, which I chalk up to the Canadian education system, was the positive characters. After finishing this book, I can't help but think that this was the ideal state to read this book and therefore I urge fellow readers to try the same. This is an incredibly funny book about a guy with powers who just wants to live a simple life as a farmer.

It turns out that being kind and gentle pays dividends that he's not even seeking and I found that very engaging. The only reason I finished the book was that it did manage to instill a pleasant, lighthearted coziness in me. This is also a story where your farm cat turns into a human so she can enter the martial arts tournament and your koi fish that washes the dishes fights a giant turtle so he can turn into dragon and your chicken goes on a quest to reach the next level of understanding in his cultivation journey. His tanned skin and freckles had spoken of a lifetime of heavy labour, without the higher realms to prevent them.But it had the benefit of sparking curiosity and led me to want to understand the popularity of some of these sub-subgenres that largely come from serial web fiction. Absently, he reached back into his pouch and rubbed the inert chunk of stone that was Nezan—or at least a part of him. The series is still running strong, with multiple updates weekly, currently in "book 3," and I made the mistake of checking the author's Patreon and questioning my life over how much he gets monthly from supporters right now. We learn early that the protagonist is from our world, but few details beyond that he's familiar with Xianxia stories and feels like he is in one. But it does seem that most of the books I liked I either forgot about or in some way grew out of liking them.