Transmigrated to Cultivate Immortality: I Subdue the Heavens with Classical Chinese

Name: Transmigrated to Cultivate Immortality: I Subdue the Heavens with Classical Chinese
Author: A Brush Beneath the Surface

穿越修仙：吾以文言镇诸天

by A Brush Beneath the Surface (浮下之笔)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 151k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Fantasy High-Concept
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[Transmigrate + Cultivation + System]+ [Confucian Dao]+ [Wild Imagination]+ [Menial Disciple + Feel-Good Power Fantasy]

Li Shenyan, a professor of Classical Chinese at a university, transmigrates into the body of a menial disciple of Qingcang Sect in the cultivation world.

When he wakes, someone has already crushed all four of his limbs and thrown him into an abyss. At the same time, the remnant soul of a Demon Venerable is trying to seize his broken body.

At the brink of life and death, the Sage's Words System activates: recite poetry and prose, and words become law; poems and essays all transform into divine abilities.

With a line from the Three Character Classic, “At the beginning of life, human nature is good,” he forcibly converts the Demon Venerable into his bookboy.

With a line from a poem, “Ten paces to slay a man, a thousand miles without a trace,” he breaks a ten-thousand-sword formation in the blink of an eye.

From then on, a bizarre oddball appears in the cultivation world.

Whenever he faces an enemy, he first clasps his hands in a respectful salute, says, “I’d like to learn from you,” and pushes up his imaginary glasses.

As he trades verbal blows, characters transform into golden dragons, and poems become showers of swords. He laughs as he reigns supreme beneath the nine heavens.

Even more outrageous, he opens a “Shenyan” Academy and teaches a group of body cultivators and demonic cultivators to recite the Three Character Classic. The hulking, brawling men are so moved by the Standards for Disciples that they burst into tears and abandon their demonic arts on the spot.

“Is this really cultivation?” ask the many prodigies of the cultivation world.

“No. This is the art of enlightenment.”

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