[Honghuang] [No Female Lead] [Genius] [Sword Cultivator] [Slow-Burn Start] [All the Big Shots Are Putting on an Act Around Me]
Ten thousand years after the Journey to the West came to an end, a cataclysmic epoch swept across Honghuang.
The immortals and gods went into hiding en masse, and the Four Great Continents were divided into the cultivation world and the mortal realm.
After the great calamity, the old tales of antiquity were forgotten. Almost no one had even heard the names of the gods who once ruled the heavens.
Ye Wuyi watched his parents die beneath the blades of their pursuers as they protected him. After escaping death, he opened his eyes and somehow ended up in a bizarre sect called the Sword Court Purple Cloud Palace.
The entire sect had just three "people."
There was a golden-haired master who spent all his time wondering what to eat today. Ye Wuyi strongly suspected he was a big golden dog who had taken human form.
Then there was a purple-robed grandmaster who spent every day either spacing out or curled up asleep. No matter how he looked at him, he seemed like a haughty cat demon.
The sect's name sounded like something his master had made up on a whim!
No mountain gate, no disciples, no prestige. They even had to run a farmstay for money. It was a thoroughly third-rate backwater sect.
Revenge? It looked like he'd have to work himself to the bone and rely on himself.
Then things got even worse: he drank his master's expired happy soda and his soul promptly left his body.
Luckily, his master bought him back from the Black and White Impermanences with two gold bricks. But he also happened to glimpse the Register of Life and Death in the Impermanences' hands:
His lifespan ended at nineteen! He wouldn't live to see twenty!
With a blood feud before him and death drawing closer by the day, Ye Wuyi gritted his teeth and trained madly with his sword, determined to return to the cultivation world and exact his revenge before his time ran out.
But as one thing after another unfolded, he finally realized:
His master and grandmaster had been putting on an act around him all along!
This story is fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.
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