📖 peek insideBeware of Chicken
by Casualfarmer
Jin Rou is a disciple in a cutthroat martial arts sect who decides he has had enough of the violent path to immortality. He flees to the distant, spirit-poor Fa Ram to become a simple farmer. But in this world of cultivation, his peaceful life attracts unexpected attention-including a very talented rooster. This lighthearted take on the Xianxia genre subverts tropes with humor and heart, focusing on the beauty of a simple life, community, and the accidental power of kindness.
A well-known book with a dedicated readership.
Notable Quotes
"Remember that everything is connected,” I finally settled on. “The water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat. Everything has some part of it that leads into each other. Disrupting one thing can disrupt many others. Fixing one thing can fix many others."
"is my fucking chicken doing a training montage? I watched his incredibly crisp kicks for a little longer."
"Jin Rou had wanted to become a powerful cultivator, a master among masters, and do whatever it is the dickbags who run this place did. Which was presumably to be dicks, dickishly."
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