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Liuxia is an ordinary disciple of the Sword Sect, far from comprehending the Great Dao and much closer to worrying about everyday necessities.
Her biggest dream is to learn enough self-defense to keep herself alive, preferably with some extra skills she can use to make a little money, then return to her hometown in the mortal world and live an ordinary, peaceful life.
Reality is cruel.
Despite all her hard work, her teacher tactfully tells her she's not much use. Rather than fattening up the demon race, she might as well stay in the sect, where at most she'll use up a little food and oil.
Liuxia goes from practicing her sword with high hopes to practicing it in sorrow.
Around then, news arrives from the front lines: Xie Yingxuan, the Alliance of Immortals' youngest and most dazzling genius, went alone into the demon realm and completely crushed the unrest that had plagued the alliance for decades.
At last, things take a turn for the better. Liuxia now only has to figure out how to save a little money and support herself in a sect where practically everyone is dirt poor.
Could things really work out so well? The thought comes to her unbidden, but only lasts a second.
Because the news that follows is that Xie Yingxuan has died, his body and soul destroyed.
Liuxia's hometown was destroyed by the demon race.
She survived and became a disciple of the Sword Sect because Xie Yingxuan happened to lead a team on a nearby demon-clearing mission. He probably doesn't remember the ragged little junior sister who got caught in the blast of his sword energy and tumbled into a heap of demons, but still, thank you!
Liuxia wipes away a tear along with her fellow junior brothers and sisters, then lights an extra incense stick for this fellow disciple, a genius cut down in his prime, out of gratitude for what he once did.
Then he starts haunting her.
He haunts her day and night. Liuxia never knew that the aloof sword prodigy who seemed so distant had another side to him.
Sometimes she wakes in the middle of the night to find him pressed up beside her, sniffing her with a dazed, intoxicated expression.
Liuxia: ...
What a pervert.
After a lot of negotiation, the newly dead man says he can't control himself in this form. He seems so innocent.
Liuxia begs him to try harder, in tears.
But the result of all that effort is a rumor in the cultivation world about the newly famous ghost cultivator Liuxia:
That smiling junior sister from the Sword Sect.
She's not very good with a sword, but she's great at controlling ghosts.
She's currently looking for a way to send ghosts swiftly on to their next life... Though replenishing some yang energy would also do.
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While alive, he couldn't express his love because of the responsibilities he bore. After death, with all worldly cares gone, he plans to happily haunt her for the rest of her life.
Cultivators have no next life.
Xie Yingxuan thinks this is Heaven's reward to him.
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