Planning to rename it: Slay the Gods: I Can Come Back to Life, So I Fear Nothing.
[Slay the Gods fanfic + native inhabitant + no female lead + redemption + coming-of-age]
I'm Gu Nian, a total loser. I was born with heart failure, and at fifteen, they couldn't bring me back. As I lamented my short life, over before it had even begun, my soul drifted back to my original body. Turns out, I was a fragment of a soul reincarnated from a past life.
In my past life, I was Fengshenghou, a divine beast kept by the Queen Mother of the West in the Jade Pool.
[Original setting: a mix of the Fengsheng Beast and Hou. Starting abilities: reborn in the wind, plus spatial forbidden ruins.]
Fengshenghou is a sly little beast. He looks timid and well-behaved, but if someone crosses him, he'll fight back. If he can't win, he'll just die! Then he'll come back to life and bite them.
Nezha is his biggest victim.
Curious about how a soul could reside in a plant and be reborn, I wanted to break off a piece of Nezha's lotus root to study it. Nezha beat me up eight hundred times, but I still wouldn't give up.
Nezha: You're like a dog-skin plaster, impossible to kick away, impossible to beat to death, and such a nuisance!!!
Was I supposed to just take those beatings? While getting pummeled, I secretly gathered space energy and used Samadhi True Fire to make beads. But after I set a mountain on fire, I was put under house arrest for several hundred years...
Gu Nian: Wow, my last life was amazing. This time, I'm ready to keep causing trouble~(￣▽￣~)~
I can come back to life, so I fear nothing~
[From the start, the story is set in Shangjing. Ye Fan is my uncle. I join the Mask Squad first, then the story moves on to Cangnan.]
Content warning: The Classic of Mountains and Seas doesn't feature much. The story starts eight years before the original, with a marker left at the point where it joins the original story. Readers who want to get to Qiye can skip ahead then.
