Other cultivation novels are about flying through the sky, burrowing underground, and defying fate.
The Wayward Pact is about the Dao among ordinary people.
The protagonist, Zhang Jiao, is an ordinary college student. One freezing, bone-chilling night in Dorm 230 sends him stumbling into another world.
The people he meets are unforgettable
His master, Zhang Tongxian, has the face of a man in his sixties but the voice of someone in his twenties. He waits for Zhang Jiao in the park to play chess. They play for three years, and every game ends in a draw. Before he leaves, he says only one thing: “As long as you’re here, the world is here.”
His senior sister, Cheng Shuang, lost her voice later in life and is emaciated, yet she alone completed the incense-passing rites at seven Yin temples. She cannot shout or cry out. When the baleful energy eats away at her, she cannot even utter a sound of pain.
His senior brother, Xuanshan, is dark, stout, and good-natured. They spend all day splashing water at each other and fooling around. But on the night of the red-and-white spirits clashing, the golden light from that pair of silver bracelets is what pulls him back from the gates of hell.
Zisu claims to be an ancient fox spirit from Qingqiu who has waited a thousand years for him. She says, “The fox woman you’ve been chasing and trying to kill in your dreams all this time is me.”
And then there’s Qi Xie, a man in a psychiatric hospital’s patient uniform who comes knocking in the middle of the night, barefoot and gaunt beyond recognition. He says he’s an heir to the Guigu tradition. Zisu says there’s “something” on him, and his master says, “Let him stay.”
He says nothing, but you know he’s protecting you.
What gets you most about this book isn’t the mysterious, otherworldly magic.
It’s
On the day of his grandfather’s funeral, he kneels before the coffin and breaks down sobbing, yet he doesn’t dare tell anyone that his grandfather’s soul is inside him. He hasn’t left.
At each of the seven Yin temples, whenever the incense is about to die out, all he can think is: My senior sister had it harder than I do. How did she make it through?
Super beautiful and the story is realistic. No exaggeration, no ink. The plot doesn't drag on. I can't get enough of it. I don't get enough of it every day. I hope there will be many more updates. Such a good-looking plot is particularly interesting, the mystery within the mystery.