Song Yuqiu died.
She pulled an all-nighter reading a novel and dropped dead. Her last comment before she died was calling the heroine an idiot: “She’s been treated like a stand-in for three years and still hasn’t run away. Serves her right.”
Then she transmigrated into that very novel, becoming the stand-in everyone online mocked.
Thirty lashes, three days in a dark room, three years of humiliation. The original knelt and died; she would live on her feet.
With no spiritual roots, she used the laws of physics to break down cultivation. Low-pressure vortices, layered spiritual energy, compressed liquid spiritual energy: modern science barreled through this world, smashing the thousand-year-old rules of the sects to pieces.
She defeated a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator at the second level, broke through from mortal to Foundation Establishment in three days, turned an enemy into an ally, and made the craziest disciple in the outer sect her devoted follower. Everyone thought she was a genius. Only she knew the truth: she simply knew one more formula than everyone else.
But the truth was far more complicated than cultivation.
She looked exactly like Chu Yuli because they were originally the same person. Ten years ago, the genius girl called Chu Yuli split her soul in two: one half remained, and the other was sent to another world. She wasn’t a stand-in. She was the other half.
Her spiritual roots had been taken, a formation had been set in her dantian, and she had been unconscious for ten years. Someone was waiting for her to return.
That person’s spiritual energy had the exact same fluctuations as hers. He had no spiritual roots, yet was so powerful that even the sect master feared him. His name was Gu Changyuan, a half-step Ascendant and the most mysterious elder of the Tianxuan Sect. He taught her how to synthesize spiritual roots and transform spiritual energy from one state to another, and everything else she wanted to know.
He gave her spiritual roots, knowledge, everything.
But what did he really want?
