My Strongest Master Pretends to Be Weak 2

The Qingyang Sect has Ethan Sterling down as the peak master who never got anywhere, stuck at a low realm and not worth much attention. He is at the Great Emperor realm. He wears rough cloth, fakes illness, keeps out of things, and takes the view that cultivation is for living a long time. The Outer Lands Evil Race comes for the sect. Ethan stays out of it and has his disciples drive the attackers off with a bad luck formation and a staged appearance of the founding ancestor. It works, and it also tells people there is something on that mountain. To keep the sect standing he has to come out and destroy the Blood Pupil King himself. His disciples were picked because they tested as worthless. The first of them scored second grade only because her constitution swallowed the spirit energy during the test. She was an empress in a past life, she carries an ice body, and in a real fight she can put out an ice dragon hundreds of metres long. Her cultivation jumped to the golden core stage once it woke and she holds it down again on Ethan's instruction. Rocco, the rooster Ethan keeps, is taken by the Golden Crow Race, and Ethan goes to their ancestral ground after him. Rocco changes shape there and wakes what is left of a phoenix soul, Ethan puts it down, and he carries what he collected back to the peak with his own strength still hidden.