The Demon-Slaying Journey

Jiang Yao was once a peerless prodigy, doted on by everyone and renowned across the land.

But at the age of eight, while awakening her Soul Star, she was attacked by demonic cultivators. Her meridians were damaged, her mother left, and the Shennong Jiang clan fell into decline.

She spent four years unconscious and five more rebuilding herself. After nine years of effort, she changed her fate, returned to the path of cultivation, and entered Kunlun, only to encounter the collapse of the Three Realms.

She refused to accept that all her efforts had come to nothing.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself back at the age of fifteen.

But she still had no soul power, her mother was still dead, and the Three Realms would collapse in just two years. She did, however, gain a new ability: she could see other people's qi.

Hearing that demonic cultivators were running rampant outside, she set out on her journey without delay.

Driving out the demonic cultivators had once been her and her mother's responsibility. After they left, the outside world had fallen into this state.

The Nine Provinces really couldn't do without Jiang Yao. She would uncover the truth behind the collapse of the Three Realms and her mother's death herself.

This time, she would save more people.

She would also restore the Shennong Jiang clan's name throughout the Nine Provinces.

She couldn't do all this alone, so first she needed to find allies.

She decided to seek out the cultivation prodigy Shao Bingjun.

She remembered that at the final moment before the Three Realms collapsed, he seemed to have flown toward her.

As a child, she'd tried to visit him at Kunlun Sect. She'd heard about his abilities and challenged him, but was turned away every time. After that, she never saw him again.

That is, until she was admitted to Kunlun Sect's Literary Studies Pavilion in her previous life.

He actually smiled at her.

She'd always heard he was free of worldly desires, unfeeling, and supremely arrogant. Yet at their first meeting, he'd shown her a side of himself she'd never expected.

Something was off about him. She had to find him.

According to her memories from her previous life, he should be at the Demon-Slaying Tournament.

She found him as she had hoped, but he had changed from the person she remembered. His immortal aura was gone, replaced by a bone-chilling, murderous air.

"What ability does Miss Jiang have to kill a demonic cultivator?"

He looked down on her too.

Jiang Yao scoffed inwardly, gave up on the idea of allying with him, and instead carried away the person lying unconscious on the ground.

This was Shao Bingjun's younger brother.

He wanted to kill him, so she was going to save him. Who did he think he was looking down on?

But after she saved him, she realized something was wrong.

When she heard he'd woken up, she rushed over. He was sitting in a hot spring, the whole room filled with thick white mist.

A powerful current of qi pressed toward her, accompanied by his cold voice: "Don't move."

She stopped, already regretting saving him.

Were the Lu brothers always so rude?

When she looked more closely, she realized the eyes of the person before her were very much like those of Shao Bingjun, whom she'd met only once in her previous life. That familiar immortal aura had also returned.

He gradually recognized her too, and his imposing air began to fade.

"You're... Jiang Yao?"

His voice was detached and distant too.

He seemed a little surprised as well.

Jiang Yao suddenly understood what was going on.

"You're Li Buyan?!"

Reader's Guide:

1. My take on immortal cultivation, with an original setting. The combat system is inspired by Da Liu Ren.

2. The male lead appears a little later after the heroine is reborn.

3. The story is set in an imaginary era, and the poems are from a shared repertoire.

4. Some of the book titles in the story are made up by the author.

5. The characters have flaws. Perfectionists, beware.

6. Happy ending.

The cultivation levels are named after the Big Dipper's stars, from lowest to highest: Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Yaoguang.

Theme: Always stay positive.