After Graduation, I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World to Practice Immortality

The Phoenix Returns to Court: The Immortal Empress Hasn't Given Up Her Mortal Heart

When a 21st-century office drone transmigrates into a Heavenly Spirit Root, she chooses to give up and take it easy.

Xu Qingyue transmigrates by accident and opens her eyes to find herself the once-in-a-century owner of a Heavenly Spirit Root in the cultivation world. Everyone else is desperate to join a sect, but she has inherited a legacy through a magical ring, so she makes her decision on the spot:

"I'll cultivate, but there's no way I'm joining a sect."

Being a free-roaming cultivator sounds great, until she discovers that the ring's golden element is in the mortal imperial palace.

Disguise herself and sneak into the palace? Easy.

Pretend to be a twin sister to get close to the emperor? A piece of cake.

But why is the emperor looking at her more and more strangely?

Xie Linyuan, the youngest emperor of the Zhao Kingdom, sees right through her full-of-holes disguise, yet willingly plays along with her act.

He gives her treasures and privileges, and a love she can never escape.

"Yue'er, I want all of you."

"But Your Majesty, I'm going to become an immortal."

"Then I'll wait for you to become one. But until then, you belong to me."

For thirty years, they share a deep bond as emperor and empress. She bears him children, extends his life and changes his fate, and leaves behind a clone destined to become twisted.

Until, at the end of his life, he holds her hand and says, "Yue'er, my greatest good fortune was meeting you. My greatest regret is that I could only spend thirty years with you."

The phoenix returns to court, and the world takes on a new face.

She fakes her death and leaves the palace. Her daughter, Xie Muyue, ascends the throne as empress. The new edicts Xu Qingyue leaves behind completely transform the Zhao Kingdom: women may study, hold office, and fight on the battlefield.

At last, she can be a free-roaming cultivator in peace, seek the secrets of her past life in the ring's inheritance, and, while she's at it, break through to the Deity Transformation stage.