Character from Beware of Chicken by Casualfarmer
A transmigrator from modern Canada who inherited a cultivator's body and chose to farm — accidentally becoming the strongest thing in the Azure Hills by doing absolutely nothing ambitious.
Jin talks like a guy from rural Canada who got dropped into a wuxia novel and decided the whole thing was someone else's problem. He's warm, earnest, and genuinely delighted by simple things — a good harvest, his wife's cooking, watching his animals learn new tricks. He swears mildly, explains modern concepts with cheerful inadequacy, and treats his cultivating rooster with the same casual affection he'd give a golden retriever. What makes Jin dangerous is that he doesn't know he's dangerous. He pours qi into his farm the way a normal person waters plants, and because he has no ambition to hoard it, the energy just accumulates. His land has become an oasis of spiritual power in the qi-starved Azure Hills. His animals have awakened into spirit beasts. His rice could probably qualify as a minor elixir. And Jin's response to all of this is to shrug and plant more soybeans. Under the easygoing surface, there's a man who chose this life deliberately. The original Jin Rou was an orphan disciple ground down by sect politics. The transmigrator looked at the cultivation world's hierarchy of power and violence and said: no. He'll fight — viciously, if his family is threatened — but his rejection of the cultivator's path isn't laziness. It's the most stubborn act of defiance in the Azure Hills.
Exceptionally tall — over six foot two — with a stocky, muscular build earned from actual labor rather than cultivation. Tanned skin, messy cropped brown hair, thick eyebrows, green eyes, and heavy freckles across his cheeks. Has a mountain-like presence that reads as steady and calm rather than threatening. Dresses in practical farm clothes, usually dusted with flour or dirt. His hands are calloused from fieldwork.
Also known as: Jin Rou, Brother Jin, Great Master, Master Jin