After I Joined Another Sect, My Woman-Hating Senior Brothers Wept

The rating is low because it just got one. It has satisfying moments, though it is not an all-out wish-fulfillment story. The heroine focuses on building her own faction. [Everyone gets their comeuppance + happy ending + no romance or System + heroine grows stronger over time and becomes formidable later on + light ensemble cast] This is the third book in the Spirit Clan trilogy. The other two are complete, and this one can be read on its own.

P.S. The heroine has died once and is very cold. She will not rush to take revenge on the female villain and her sect: she cannot beat them, and no one would believe her anyway. She intends to let the villain be, allowing her former sect to suffer the consequences of its own actions and meet its well-deserved ruin.

In her previous life, no matter how hard Xi Yan tried to please her misogynistic senior brothers, they never treated her kindly. When junior sister Gong Xue joined the sect, Xi Yan was misunderstood and slandered. Even after she realized something was wrong with Gong Xue, no one was willing to hear her out.

In the end, her master shattered her dantian and locked her in a dungeon. Her eldest senior brother stood by as she was tortured mentally, her second senior brother whipped her day after day, leaving her in physical agony, and her third senior brother fed her poison, making her wish she were dead. Her fourth senior brother took the only thing that could have saved her life. Finally, her master gouged out her eyes, and she died a miserable death in the dungeon.

Reborn, she understands that her flesh and blood had already repaid her sect's kindness in her previous life, and she has become cold and distant. This time, she is determined to leave the sect and escape her living hell! But once she leaves, she unexpectedly awakens her bloodline, makes a name for herself, and cultivates both swordsmanship and alchemy. Sects everywhere take a keen interest in her.

Meanwhile, her misogynistic senior brothers weep and bitterly regret their actions, while her master begs her to return and help restore the sect.

“No. I’m starting a sect of my own!”

Xi Yan makes friends far and wide and eventually establishes her own sect. She grows stronger, helps those in need, and ultimately becomes a ruler in her own right.