The Lord Magistrate just wants to be left alone without damn cultivators making his life a hassle. They each view the world in entirely different ways and through completely separate lenses.

I can’t say more without major spoilers, but the radically different perspectives between Jin, the Lord Magistrate, the chicken, and various other characters (such as a sentient bee queen) is a highlight of the series. He immediately nopes out of the sect, goes to the quietest and most Qi-starved place he can find, to start a peaceful life as a farmer.Īlong the way, he meets various people, including a love interest (which is also wholesame as hell and very well done), starts his farm, gets some farm animals, and the-in the fashion of typical xianxia-the chicken gains sentience as it spiritually awakens and becomes the protector of the farm. A cultivator at the Cloudy Sword Sect dies during a beating from a Young Master, and our MC is reincarnated in the boys body. The premise is fairly simple, and not explored in any great depth apart from an acknowledgement of tropes and slight breaking of the fourth wall. The tidal wave of support for the work pushed me over the edge, so I picked it up… and it turns out that was a great decision.

I saw this series recommended a few times on various groups and subreddits, but I always put it off because the name of the series didn’t exactly give me details about what it was about. As of writing this review, I have read all 212 published chapters on Royal Road.

Beware of chicken casualfarmer