Beware of Chicken 4: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel

In a world where ambitious cultivators chase immortality and battle for cosmic power, Jin Rou just wants to tend his fields, care for his animals, and be left alone. That turns out to be harder than ascending to the heavens. By the fourth book in CasualFarmer's beloved series, the quiet farm Jin has built is undeniably real — the relationships, the roots, the life he's chosen over glory — and the forces he's long been avoiding are no longer content to ignore him. The stakes here feel earned rather than inflated, because what's at risk isn't the fate of the world but something smaller and more precious: a home.

What distinguishes this series, and this installment in particular, is the rare warmth CasualFarmer brings to every page. The prose is unhurried without being slow, the humor grows organically from character rather than being played for cheap laughs, and the cultivation-genre conventions are treated with both affection and wit. Reading it feels less like following a power-fantasy and more like visiting somewhere you genuinely want to return to — which, by book four, is exactly the point.