You Asked Me to Write a Xianxia, So Why Did I Write Harry Potter?

Ren Yuan transmigrates into the venue of a creative competition.

The contest prompt, however, is "xianxia."

Knowing little about xianxia, Ren Yuan has no choice but to take the story in a wildly different direction:

In the year XXXX, a great demon appeared in the cultivation world, calling himself the Earth-Covering Demon Lord.

Convinced that only pure-blooded cultivators deserved to rule, he led the demonic cultivators under his command in wiping out cultivators with mortal bloodlines, plunging the cultivation world into bloodshed and leaving countless dead!

Thus began the first great war between the righteous and demonic factions of the cultivation world.

Eleven years later, while trying to kill Huo Lingbo, the chosen one of destiny, the Earth-Covering Demon suffered a backlash from his own spell. His body was destroyed, leaving only a wisp of his soul to cling to life.

When word got out, Deng Bu'e, the head of Mount Shu, decided to entrust Huo Lingbo to the care of his maternal uncle, Du Fulong, and his family.

Legend of Mount Shu 1: Huo Lingbo and the Heaven-Mending Stone begin...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.