So, I Was Actually a Cultivation Bigshot – Mu Xia Zhi Shui | Summary

Summary - Updated on February 10, 2025

《Turns Out He’s a Cultivation Bigshot》 is a novel by the author Mu Xia Zhi Shui. The story tells of Li Nianfan, who unintentionally always surprises people. He believes he is a mortal, but everyone thinks he is an expert.

Synopsis

From a cultivation world heading towards decline, his appearance is like a breath of fresh air, preventing this decline. After the great calamity, the Dragon Gate, the Underworld, and the Heavenly Palace were sealed, all of which were gradually opened because of him.

The protagonist unintentionally always surprises people. He believes he is a mortal, but everyone thinks he is an expert. An orange, an apple, a piece of watermelon, a bowl of porridge… in his eyes, they are just ordinary things, but in the eyes of others, they are spiritual roots and immortal fruits containing Dao rhymes. In his backyard, spiritual roots are everywhere…

Li Nianfan came to the world of cultivation, but possessed a mortal body. After learning that there was no hope for cultivation, he just wanted to live a stable life. But he didn’t know:

The puppy he raised, because it stayed by his side, was able to eat all kinds of fruits he planted and the food he made, and see the various poems he wrote… thus becoming an unfathomable dog, secretly protecting his residence.

The trees he planted in the backyard, because they listened to him playing the zither… all became unfathomable towering trees, supporting the heaven and earth and becoming bridges.

He met a scholar dressed like a beggar, and because of the words he casually uttered, he unexpectedly enlightened the scholar, making him a preacher and leading an era…

Cultivation Realms

Earthly Realm: Qi Refining – Foundation Establishment – Golden Core – Nascent Soul – Out of Body – Soul Division – Integration – Tribulation Transcension – Great Ascension
Immortal Realm: Celestial Immortal – Solid Immortal – Golden Immortal – Grand Unity Golden Immortal – Grand Luo Golden Immortal – Half-Saint – Saint / Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal
Heavenly Dao Realm: Can be divided into ten layers and a hundred layers, with huge differences in each layer
Grand Dao Supreme Realm: Divided into three steps, each step has a large gap
Grand Dao Sovereign Realm

Character Introductions

1. Male Protagonist

Li Nianfan: The protagonist, a transmigrator, with unfathomable strength, but he himself is unaware and always thinks he is an ordinary person.
Titles: Sage of Poetry, Sage of Chess, Sage of Painting, Shennong, Saint of Merit…

2. Female Protagonists

Daji: Grand Dao Supreme Realm, Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox, named by the male protagonist. She was saved by Li Nianfan when she was a Six-tailed Spiritual Fox, and chose to transform to repay his kindness, living with the male protagonist ever since. Later, she married Li Nianfan.
Fire Phoenix: Grand Dao Supreme Realm, Phoenix, a woman with beauty comparable to Daji. Because she heard that there was an expert in the mortal realm who wanted her to be his mount, she wanted to go to the lower realm to meet that expert, but unfortunately, she was severely injured by heavenly lightning and was saved by the male protagonist. Later, she married Li Nianfan.

3. Companions

Big Black: Grand Dao Venerable Realm, a big black dog, the male protagonist’s pet, a righteous dog grandpa, whose magic weapon is the underpants sewn by his master.
Xiao Bai: An illusory and real existence surpassing the Grand Dao Supreme Realm, a robot, the housekeeper of the courtyard, usually a cook Xiao Bai, eyes turn red when angry.
Jiaolong: Grand Dao Supreme Realm, Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, the ancestor of the Dragon Clan, living in the lotus pond of the courtyard, a survivor of the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation in the Primordial Era.
Little Fox: Heavenly Dao Realm, Six-tailed Spiritual Fox, later promoted to Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox, Daji’s younger sister.
Nie Nie: Grand Dao Supreme Realm, a little girl from Fallen Immortal City, a younger sister known by the male protagonist.
Dragon Person: Grand Dao Supreme Realm, the seventh princess of the Dragon Clan, Jiaolong’s great-great-great… granddaughter Gu Long.
Jun Jun Daoist: Heavenly Dao Realm, real name Hongjun, the Dao Ancestor of the Primordial Era.
Nuwa: Heavenly Dao Realm, Human Clan Saint.
Jade Emperor: Heavenly Dao Realm, Lord of the Heavenly Palace.
Yang Jian: Half-Step Grand Dao Supreme Realm.
Xiao Chunfeng: Heavenly Dao Realm.
Giant Spirit God: Heavenly Dao Realm.
Master Tongtian: Heavenly Dao Realm, the leader of the Intercept Sect in the Primordial Era.

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