Yun Ying was the undisputed child of immortals. Her mother was the sect leader, and her father was the greatest rogue immortal. When she was born, the heavens and earth turned blood red, and the newborn girl had golden hair as eerie as a demon's.
The elders all said that this girl would become either an Immortal Venerable or a God of Slaughter.
Instead, she turned out to be a stubborn good-for-nothing.
Fortunately, there was always another path. She struck out on her own, studying formations and talismans until she became a master in her field. But she had no interest in founding a sect. With two swords on her back, she left Mount Shu and became a demon slayer, wandering the world.
Demon slaying meant exactly what it sounded like: reducing cultivators who had succumbed to demonic cultivation to dust, so they couldn't take the lives of others.
She worked as a demon slayer for over a hundred years, living up to the elders' prediction that she would become a "God of Slaughter" and standing unrivaled beneath the heavens.
After years of wind and frost, with blood covering her hands, she was tired.
So she took in a poor child as her disciple, threw together a makeshift sect, and declared herself its "master," settling into a leisurely retirement.
As a true martial arts fanatic, she knew nothing of music, chess, calligraphy, or painting. She had even less patience for laundry, cooking, managing subordinates, or dealing with people.
Her capable disciple took care of everything, bearing burdens no child his age should have had to shoulder.
She hadn't been waited on hand and foot for long before she realized:
She was about to ascend.
Then her ascension failed, and she died.
When she opened her eyes again, her spiritual power had dried up like a desert.
She caught her reflection in a riverside pool. Hey, this little girl was pretty adorable.
She looked thirteen again.
Just when she had nowhere left to turn, she unexpectedly ran into the well-behaved disciple she'd longed for day and night.
Her disciple had gone from a boy who followed right on her heels to a mild-mannered, easygoing young man, and had become a sought-after demon slayer.
It seemed time hadn't turned back. Had her body simply changed?
She could feel herself at the center of a conspiracy, but she had no clue what was going on.
After raising a disciple for a thousand days, it was time to put him to use. His power seemed unfathomable, and all she could do now was cling to his coattails and wait for her chance.
But her disciple stared at her expressionlessly and asked, "Who are you?"
Yun Ying x Yin Luo
An unruly, unhinged beauty of a master x a capable, lovesick disciple who plays the pig to eat the tiger
BG, one-on-one, happy ending
My take on a female-led cultivation fantasy, with a touch of ensemble cast and one villainous side couple
Theme: Though thousands stand against me, I will go
Probably when I come across the novel I want to read as soon as the final weekend comes ❤️