Celestial Silk

[One Female Lead] [Court Intrigue] [Alternate World] [Xuanhuan] [Xianxia] [No System] [Not Overpowered] Shi Anwen, whose resolve is said to be “heavier than Mount Tai,” has spent ten years cultivating the world’s greatest technique, the Purple Emperor Art, at the Immortal Sword Sect, yet he has gained not the slightest power. A good-for-nothing in the eyes of the world, Shi Anwen is unexpectedly granted an imperial marriage by the Emperor of the Yu Kingdom in front of the entire Immortal Sword Sect. With no other choice, he leaves the sect and returns to the Yu Kingdom alone. But on the way home, Shi Anwen is targeted by one assassination attempt after another. And thanks to the Emperor’s marriage decree, he is drawn into the Yu Kingdom’s power struggles. In this world of Xianxia, there are all kinds of paths to cultivation: martial masters who can take on a thousand men, mysterious physiognomists, sorcerers who command the myriad phenomena, smiths skilled in formations, learned scholars, alchemists devoted to refining pills, and spirit tamers who listen to living creatures. There are countless factions: the four great orthodox sects, the demonic and heretical cults, and the dreaded Tianyi Pavilion: “The heavenly net is vast, yet nothing slips through. Ruthless and merciless, flawless in execution.” In a world teeming with experts and heroes, where can a “good-for-nothing” like Shi Anwen possibly turn...