[Ensemble Cast + Cultivation + Comedy + Slice of Life + Couple Later On]
Ye Qingli, young sect leader of Haiyu City, born with a sword spirit.
In reality, she's a transmigrated workaholic CEO. She worked herself to death in a conference room in her previous life, and after being born into the world as the young sect leader, she only wants to slack off.
Until her father dies.
At the funeral hall, the elders attempt a coup. Twelve-year-old Ye Qingli plants her sword in the ground, drives off the enemy in three sentences, openly reveals that she's born with a sword spirit, and hands the city lord's sword to her mother. “Three years. If my mother can't do it, she'll step down and make way for someone more capable.”
Five years later, her mother is the iron-fisted city lord in the public eye, while she pulls the strings behind the scenes.
Everyone in the city thinks the young sect leader is a gluttonous wastrel. Nobody knows she built Haiyu City's economic lifeline with her own hands.
Clues about her father's death point to the Qingyun Sect, so she packs her things and heads off to become a disciple.
On her first day at school:
“So you're the one born with a sword spirit? You're only at the third level of Qi Refining?”
“Yeah. I'm lazy.”
“...”
The whole sect thinks they've gotten a useless student, until the medicinal herb garden starts turning a profit, pills start being rationed, and even the errand runners delivering packages are flying around on swords.
The Qingyun Sect's leaders: This little girl has something going for her.
Ye Qingli: It has nothing to do with me. My mother taught you all that.
Liu Sanniang, reading her lines remotely: ...Right, I taught you all of it.
Later, she gathers a group of oddballs around her: the young sect leader of Tianyuan City, whom she talked into becoming a business partner in three sentences; a protective, gentle senior brother who recognizes talent; a socially anxious alchemy genius she tricked into making blind boxes of pills; and a soft, doll-like junior sister who develops mutated spirit plants...
Ye Qingli: I told you, I only came here to learn swordsmanship.
Everyone: You learned swordsmanship and became the whole sect's beloved darling. Did you know that?
