Empress Reborn: My Master Is Too Ordinary

Lu Xi has mastered the art of cultivation through mundane chores—chop wood, carry water, grow stronger. All he wants is a peaceful hermit life on his mountain peak, far from the chaos of sect politics. But when the sect leader threatens to dissolve his peak unless he takes a disciple, Lu Xi is forced to choose. At the recruitment ceremony, he picks the one girl everyone else rejected: a 'pseudo-spirit root' with zero potential. She seems harmless enough. What Lu Xi doesn't realize is that his throwaway disciple is actually a legendary empress, reborn into this world with all her memories intac…