[Misunderstanding Comedy] [System] [Funny and Lighthearted] [Subverts Expectations] [Role-Playing] [Satisfying Contrast]
What's it like to fail the martial arts exam and then get dragged off to become a human furnace?
Lu Xuan says: Thanks for asking. I'm in a pool of blood, and I've just been kidnapped.
At the brink of despair, the System finally activated, eighteen years late.
[Ding! Beginner role drawn: Hehuan Demon Ancestor!]
[Current match rate: 100% (Note: Previous-life wisdom detected in Host. You were once the Hehuan Demon Ancestor.)]
Lu Xuan: "..."
It was bad enough that the System dug up every embarrassing secret from his past life. Now he was surrounded by a roomful of evil cultivators who drank human blood. What was he supposed to do?
There was nothing for it but to grit his teeth and keep up the act!
"You suck the yang energy from the living? No wonder your qi and blood are so muddled, you fool."
"The Nine Fiends Dragon-Locking Formation is missing its life gate. Keep it running for another half hour and you'll all explode!"
"The Demon Sect these days gets worse with every generation."
Lu Xuan tossed out a few criticisms, hoping to buy time until help arrived.
But then...
The evil sect's saintess dropped to her knees and begged for instruction;
The guardian elder presented the treasures he had collected throughout his life;
And the sect leader, a tyrant feared across the land, trembled and offered up the position of sect master with both hands that very night!
Lu Xuan: "I'm really not some supreme demon, or an ancient powerhouse. I'm just a guy who failed the martial arts exam!"
The evil sect's leader had tears in his eyes as his imagination ran wild: "I understand! The Ancestor is tempering his heart in the mortal world, a veiled warning that our Dao hearts are impure! We welcome the Ancestor's guidance!"
Lu Xuan: "???"
