If he had connections but kept them hidden until he ran into trouble, he could definitely use them to put on a show and humiliate people. However, he might also end up creating grudges and drag Zhao Siyao down with him.

That kind of irrational, immature behavior, Lan Chang'an naturally would not do.

The author is the master of word filling ! Many chapters are filled with #1, #2, #3 info dumps & reasons. In the later chapters, the overt lengthy flash back.

All are inserted stealthily. Coupled with the slow pace of the MC, his karma-severing life style, these word-filling passes most people's attention quietly.

**Summary of the story** (this is for me if I decide to come back to this again later) : After failing a sect's test because of his age, he joins the Mu family, which needs males to help breed more cultivators. He refuses to marry anyone and chooses to stay low-key as a talisman master. He rejects the young lady from the family, then leaves the family on good terms after being a parasite. He then moves to a big city and tries to become an alchemist. He takes advantage of his relationship with the FL, which he has cultivated over the years, and she ends up trusting him. She is from the sect and is at the core formation stage. They fight together in the forest against some demonic beasts, and he ends up saving her. She kind of likes him. He is farming and trying to gather enough loot to obtain the ingredients for pills that will help him pass the core formation stage. Meanwhile, the Mu family is defeated, and his sidekick friend, who had many children, chooses to hide secrets from the MC to avoid worrying him.

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Character Descriptions (from memory) :

- MC name: Lan Chang

- Male characters:

- Li Ergou: A farmer and h**ny friend who marries multiple women in the Mu family. His name changes multiple times throughout the story. He has several sons.

- Lin Yin: Dies, but his scoundrel of a son lives.

- Unnamed sect member: A guy in the same sect as Zhao Siyao who has some influence. The MC kills his enemy and gains recognition. His name starts with a "Z".

- Du (or something similar) : A greedy and h**ny alchemist neighbor.

- Female characters:

- Zhao Siyao: Helps him and is in the big sect.

- Mu [Surname unknown]: Gets saved multiple times by the MC, falls in love with him, gets abandoned, and then loses vitality.

- Unnamed young girl: Falls for the MC and becomes his maid.

- Arrogant girl from the beast-taming family: Her name starts with a "Z".

- Sect that rejected him:

- Jin Yun Valley

- Enemies:

- Hujang (something close to this namr) family, family that starts with "Z"

1. 1. And novels MC which I like very much because he is so much different and well written compared to other cultivation MCs and even writers own other mcs. I don't want the spoil too much of the MC because he is one of the best part of the novel but I want to respond to people saying MC is too disconnected or didn't care. He cares and shows them in subtle ways but he doesn't want to have too strong of connections because of well established reasons in the novel like cultivating an evarlasting technique like his foundation establishment lifespan is greater than a fake dan's one and close to the true dan's one that gives him enough lifespan that he can technically outlive his friends grandson who is same level as him

1. 1. And this is characters third life which he aims to became a nascent soul cultivator which is extremely hard even for MC who is a past life golden core cultivator
      
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