Tao Xiaoyao was caught off guard and dragged into an instance.
No instructions. No rules.
Just one goal: survive.
In her struggle to stay alive, she somehow awakened a supernatural ability.
Reciting scriptures could protect her, and also purify things.
In her struggle to stay alive, she inexplicably became bound to an NPC as a partner.
Does “partner” mean the same thing as the partner I know?…
From a drowned, silent city to a brightly lit underground black market, Tao Xiaoyao recites scriptures as the team's healer, carving out a path to survival amid repeated System prompts announcing, “Partner bound.”
Together with her partners, each with a wildly different personality, Tao Xiaoyao travels between instances where the rules are twisted.
Yet more troubling than the monsters inside the instances is the “battle royale” waiting behind her. Surrounded by these powerful, warped partners, Tao Xiaoyao is in a bind: how can she stay alive to the very end among a group of nonhumans?
The protagonist grows over time, so the pacing may be a little slow at first.
It's very beautiful, the logic is clear, and the writing is very imaginative.