The Rootless Her Became a Cultivation Prodigy by Courting Death

Name: The Rootless Her Became a Cultivation Prodigy by Courting Death
Author: Cheng Eats Fish

无灵根的她靠作死成为修真天才

by Cheng Eats Fish (澄吃鱼)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 927k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Fantasy Romance
Updated: 26d ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

(Cultivation + System + no romance + villainess)

Ai Guang has the lowest grade of mortal roots and cannot cultivate.

Although she has a System, it’s a genuine death-seeking System. As long as she seeks her own death, it gives her spiritual roots, cultivation techniques, spiritual treasures, and magical artifacts.

Unwilling to settle for an ordinary life, Ai Guang sets out on the path of courting death.

No spiritual roots, unable to cultivate? The System issues a mission: slap a recruitment boy across the face and earn low-grade spiritual roots.

To avoid becoming a mediocre mortal, Ai Guang gives it her all.

No pills, slow cultivation? She can only mock and clap back at her fellow disciples, stirring up trouble everywhere. Her favorability drops to minus ten, her death-seeking points rise to one hundred, and pills and spirit stones come rolling in.

She’s made enemies among her fellow disciples, and foes surround her? For the sake of cultivation, Ai Guang gives it her all.

She’s courting death too recklessly? She might get beaten to death? That’s the path of cultivating immortality by courting death. Once you set out, there’s no turning back. Let’s see whether she can get herself killed faster or increase her strength faster.

(Advance notice: The heroine will do whatever it takes to increase her strength so she can court death. Her character is roughly equivalent to a villainous antagonist. She’s neither a good person nor pure evil. She does whatever she wants, whether that means doing something bad or something good.

The cultivation world in this story is very cruel. You either plunder resources to build yourself up, get plundered and die, or hide away as thoroughly as possible just to scrape by. People raised in such an environment have values completely different from those in the real world, so don’t compare the characters’ values with those of the real world. There’s no comparison to be made. The heroine wants to become the strongest and refuses to hide. If you’re comfortable with survival-of-the-fittest thinking, come on in.)

Other names

She's Wild After Binding the Cultivation Daredevil System绑定修仙作死系统的她超狂Alternate title on Fanqie

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