My Kind and Gentle Senior Is Just a Little Too Strong

[No romance + urban fantasy + secret identities + semi-satisfying power fantasy + slightly overpowered + slightly adored by everyone + ensemble cast] An original-character story. The character design is on the cover. I commissioned the artwork; reposting is prohibited. After the spiritual qi revival, magical beasts run rampant, and humanity can survive by only two paths: Body cultivators: risk their lives tempering their bodies, shatter a mountain with one punch, and boast unmatched defense. Spirit cultivators: form contracts with magical beasts, share life and death, and grow stronger without limits. The catch is, you need money. Raising a magical beast from Tier One to Tier Two costs at least 200,000. No money? Go be a body cultivator. Jiang Yuan'an, the top body cultivator senior at Moubing Academy, is gentle and beautiful, and famous as the “Commoner's Champion.” Everyone thinks she reached where she is today by training herself to the bone. No one knows she cultivates both body and spirit, and trains several times faster than other people. By day, she teaches people at the academy how to throw a punch. At night, she's a bounty hunter known by the codename Qian Lu. No one knows who she really is. All they know is that her magical beast is a blue deer, which usually stays inside her teardrop-shaped pendant. Her identity is exposed? Whatever. She can't be bothered hiding it anymore. The higher-ups are shocked? Fine. She's used to it by now. A Tier Ten magical beast sealed away a hundred years ago breaks free, and even all of humanity can't stop it? Jiang Yuan'an rolls up her sleeves: “So you're the one, huh?” She doesn't rely on resources or connections. On her own, with one deer, she has the combat power of an entire battalion. Wherever Qian Lu passes, not a blade of grass remains. She rockets up the rankings from outside the top thousand to number one. Jiang Yuan'an: Just basic stuff. Don't make a fuss. One day, an old man comes looking for her. “You are the variable.”