From the Start, Possessed by an Ancestor

[Female protagonist + no System + not brainless + every faction is intelligent] A group of mortal prodigies braves the storms and crosses the endless sea, surviving countless brushes with death before finally setting foot on the legendary Qiling Continent. They bid farewell to their homeland and wagered their lives on the journey, believing they would ascend to immortality from then on. Yet the continent offered them no gifts. Faced with the disdain of the native clans and the body snatching of millennia-old monsters, they had a mortal homeland behind them that they could never return to, and an endless prison before them. Despair, like a rising tide, ruthlessly swallowed the young cultivators whole. But there were always some who refused to bow their heads and accept their fate. Before they sank completely into darkness, an undying hope was born above the despair.