Beware of Chicken

by Casualfarmer

Jin Rou was a disciple of the Cloudy Sword Sect until a soul from modern Canada replaced him. Now he's Rou Jin, a farmer in the qi-starved Azure Hills, growing rice and raising animals who keep accidentally awakening into spirit beasts. Beware of Chicken is a xianxia deconstruction wrapped in a cozy farming story — warm, funny, and deeply sincere about the radical idea that kindness is more powerful than cultivation.

45 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• An Ran — The Smaller Blade of Grass — Xiulan's most dedicated student and the informal leader of the Orchid's Petals, quietly proving that the next generation
• Cai Xiulan — The Demon-Slaying Orchid — a sect heiress who was humbled, rebuilt, and became something rarer than a powerful cultivator: a good leader.
• Cao Biyu — A crystal artisan from Pale Moon Lake City who fell for a fox-faced photographer and creates image crystals, storage artifacts, and weight-reduction a
• Chow Ji — A rat spirit beast who infiltrated Fa Ram with false benevolence and nearly destroyed it from within — a manipulator whose cruelty is measured not in
• Elder Chen — A Cloudy Sword Sect elder — one of the sect's senior members who helps maintain its traditions of demon-fighting and scholarly discipline.
• Fa Bi De — The First Disciple of Fa Ram — a rooster who cultivates moonlight, fights demons, and takes his responsibilities with the absolute seriousness of a ti
• He Wa Shi — A carp who climbed a waterfall and became a dragon — Fa Ram's resident glutton, dishwasher, and improbably gifted mathematician.
• Hong Meiling — The Hellion of Hong Yaowu turned Great Healing Sage — a village healer's daughter who married a transmigrator, cultivated medical qi, and became the m
• Hong Ri Zu — A tiny rat who became a healer, a spy, and a quiet force of moral courage — betraying her own clan leader to protect the farm that gave her a real fam
• Hong Xian — The village chief of Hong Yaowu — a practical healer and father who watched a strange cultivator marry his daughter and turn his quiet corner of the A
• Liang Yin — A jade rabbit from the Moon who cultivates sunlight, swears like a sailor, and was forged into a weapon before she learned she could choose to be some
• Liu Bowu — A mortal engineer in a world of cultivators — his meridians were shattered, his knee was crippled, and he responded by inventing steam technology beca
• Liu Xianghua — The Heron of Misty Lake — a dragon-blooded sectmaster whose aristocratic performance masks social awkwardness, face blindness, and a fierce loyalty th
• Lord Magistrate — The administrator of Verdant Hill's district — a government official navigating the impossible task of governing mortals in a province where cultivato
• Miantiao — A crippled snake seeking atonement — he turned a rabbit into a weapon for revenge, found forgiveness instead, and now teaches at the farm that should
• Rou Jin — A transmigrator from modern Canada who inherited a cultivator's body and chose to farm — accidentally becoming the strongest thing in the Azure Hills
• Rou Tigu — A tiger-striped cat who earned a human form and a family name — Fa Ram's fiercest fighter, worst diplomat, and most earnest sculptor of muscular figur
• Rou Zhuye — The young master of Fa Ram — a baby who can smell qi, has a tiger for a sister, a bee empress as a bodyguard, and no idea how unusual any of this is.
• Shaggy Two — A cultivating dog who considers Tigu and Yin his big sisters — earnest, loyal, and probably the most normal member of Fa Ram's increasingly abnormal m
• Shan Chun Ke — A boar with the biggest heart on Fa Ram and the deepest wounds — brain-damaged by a demon's attack, he sees the world in fragments but understands kin
• Shan Pi Pa — Fa Ram's majordomo in a straw hat — a pig whose refinement masks a void-aligned cultivation that can swallow things much larger than a pig should be a
• Shen Yu — An Imperial Realm cultivator who raised an orphan, abandoned him to fight demons, and returned to find that orphan had become a farmer with a kung fu
• Spooks — A juvenile thunderhoof moose who delights in creeping up on people — part cosmic prankster, part apocalyptic ungulate, all mischief.
• Su Nezan — A fox spirit trickster who became Fa Ram's guardian — descended from the legendary Da Ji, with all the mischief and none of the malice.
• Tianlan — The shattered Earth Spirit of the Azure Hills — a minor deity broken into fragments a thousand years ago, slowly stitched back together by a farmer's
• Tie Delun — The young master of the Hermetic Iron Sect — an ironskin cultivator who integrated ancestral masonry into his fighting style and gets flustered every
• Vajra — The sole surviving war queen of a destroyed bee civilization — she worships Jin as her emperor and commands her hive with the tactical precision of a
• Xong Gou Ren — The taller Xong brother — a habitual complainer with a monkey bloodline, stone-hard qi, and the quiet reliability of someone who grumbles about everyt
• Xong Yun Ren — The fox-faced Xong brother — an illusionist, photographer, and prankster who can become a woman, wield a spirit sword, and look beautiful doing all of
• Yao Che — An herbalist and apothecary from Hong Yaowu who became Fa Ram's resident specialist in practical chemistry and Bowu's mentor in the material sciences.

Locations

• Azure Hills — The weakest province in the empire — qi-starved, looked down on by every other region, and quietly becoming the most interesting place in the world be
• Cloudy Sword Sect — The Bane of Demons — an ancient sect of scholar-warriors perched above the clouds, founded by enslaved scholars who overthrew a tyrant and built a leg
• Crimson Crucible City — An imperial city at the heart of the Crimson Phoenix Empire — where the Cloudy Sword Sect perches above the clouds and the empire's power structures o
• Dueling Peaks — A tournament ground in the Azure Hills — where cultivators from across the province come to test themselves, settle disputes, and occasionally discove
• Fa Ram — A farm in the Azure Hills that became an oasis of spiritual power — where a transmigrator grows rice, animals learn kung fu, and the most revolutionar
• Grass Sea — A vast plain of spiritual grass in the Azure Hills — endless rolling grassland that hosts its own ecosystem of spirit beasts and the settlements that
• Hong Yaowu — A village of fifty people whose name means 'Medicine Warehouse' — the closest settlement to Fa Ram and the quiet heart of a community that keeps produ
• Misty Lake Sect — Liu Xianghua's sect — a water-arts school near a mist-shrouded lake that gained a steam-powered edge when its young master's mortal brother started in
• Pale Moon Lake City — The district capital of Azure Hills — a tiered ancient city on a great lake, with forges, archives, and the kind of commercial infrastructure that mak
• Shrouded Mountain Sect — A major sect in the Howling Fang Mountains that persecuted foxes for centuries — until three Fa Ram disciples triggered a civil war by telling the tru
• Verdant Blade Sect — Cai Xiulan's sect — a blade-arts school in the Azure Hills that went from declining provincial sect to the nucleus of a province-wide alliance under a
• Verdant Hill — The administrative center of the Azure Hills' smallest district — a town of two thousand on a hilltop, with impressive walls and a growing awareness t

Items

• Fa Ram Seal — Half maple leaf, half wheat stalk, encircled — the symbol of a farm that accidentally became the most important community in the Azure Hills.
• Steam Furnace — A cultivator artifact built by a mortal — Bowu's masterwork that enhances his sister's mist techniques with steam power, proving that innovation doesn
• Summer's Sky — A spirit blade wielded by Yun Ren — a sword that carries the warmth and light of its name, unexpected in the hands of an illusionist and fox-blooded t

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