Braving the Infinite City With the Qixiu System

[Blurb]

After dying in a car accident, Xian Yin opens her eyes again in a strange land.

Good news: She's back from the dead and has another chance at life.

Bad news: She's been reborn on an island in another world, where man-eating monsters called "demons" exist.

Good news: Even though it's another world, her home still exists, so she's going to cross the sea and go back.

Bad news: ...Her body can't go out to sea! And the "demons" here are especially fond of her flesh and blood.

Good news: Her rebirth came with a golden finger. She can use the skills of her video game character.

Bad news: ...She has to slowly level up from level 0, and since she has no weapon, her only starting skill is [Long Fist].

Xian Yin sighs at the sky. Please, just give her a pair of twin swords! She really doesn't want to hear "A fine horse without a good saddle, a weapon that doesn't fit your hand" ever again!!!

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By a twist of fate, Xian Yin takes part in the Demon Slayer Corps' selection. With her Long Fist trained to level 10 and a few starting skills that require no weapons, she becomes a Demon Slayer Corps member alongside her new friend, Sabito.

After picking the ore needed to forge her Nichirin Blade, Xian Yin says earnestly, "Please make me a pair of twin swords! Not blades for chopping people, but swords for stabbing them. Twin swords!"

However, demons' weak point is their heads, and they can only be killed by decapitation with a Nichirin Blade or by sunlight. Swords meant for stabbing are somewhat less suited to chopping off heads.

The swordsmith traveling all the way to forge Xian Yin's Nichirin Blade tries to talk her around.

Xian Yin: If you think about it, a lot of the weapon appearances in the Seven Show schools aren't twin swords. There are even twin axes, twin hammers, and twin ladles (.), ahem.

So Xian Yin nods in agreement, with one condition: "When you forge them, please don't call them blades. Call them twin swords!"

The ones who use twin blades are the folks over in the Mingjiao school! She doesn't want another weapon that doesn't fit her hand.

After getting her "twin swords" by way of wishful thinking, Xian Yin officially begins her journey to slay demons.

If an ordinary demon blocks her way, she kills an ordinary demon. If a Lower Rank demon blocks her way, she kills a Lower Rank demon. If an Upper Rank demon blocks her way... Uh, she and the other Pillars will work hard together to kill an Upper Rank demon.

Even against Muzan, she'll break through with her sword!

By the West Lake, the beauty's charm; within the Outer Tower, the sound of rain.

In painted boats, silken robes dance; by the stream and bridge, leaves sway gracefully. (*Note: The Seven Show school's poem from Jian Wang 3.)

Seven Show disciple Xian Yin reporting for duty!

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Other Demon Slayer Corps members all have their own Breathing Styles, which boost their demon-slaying abilities. Xian Yin can't learn Breathing Styles, but fortunately she has a golden finger System to rely on.

When others ask Xian Yin what Breathing Style she uses, she puts on a calm front: "...Let's call it the Breath of Beauty."

The Breath of Beauty has countless techniques, for single or multiple enemies, interrupting and dispelling, you name it.

Other Demon Slayer Corps members try to copy it, but they can never grasp its secrets.

The strangest part is that the others' Breathing Styles only look supernatural, while they actually use real swordsmanship. But Xian Yin's Breath of Beauty... is genuinely like a Blood Demon Art!

How can someone shout "Butterfly Kicks Her Feet" while fighting and actually have butterflies fluttering around them?

How can someone yell "Sword Breaks the Void" and really call down lightning? Ever heard of Thunder Breathing?!

Xian Yin nervously explains, "It's all an illusion. Just an illusion."

But one skeptic deliberately takes a hit from Sword Breaks the Void, and ends up with a stylish new haircut from the electric shock.

Xian Yin wipes her sweat: "Um, so, do you like the five red stars I shocked into you?"

"Content warnings"

0. A crossover fanfic between Jian Wang 3 and Demon Slayer. It takes place entirely in the Demon Slayer world, with no Jian Wang 3 elements apart from the characters' skills (as requested, this is stated in the blurb and Jian Wang 3 is included in the tags). I'll do my best to make it understandable even if you haven't seen Demon Slayer or played Jian Wang 3.

1. It's sort of a System leveling story, but not really a plot-driven power fantasy or a sweet slice-of-life romance. I don't even know what to call it... (nervous). Anyway, it's a hodgepodge.

2. Still undecided on the pairing. I'll see how the story develops, but I'm leaning toward either Sabito or Giyu. I'll make them a little older.

3. An alternate universe where Sabito and Makomo survive. Giyu is the Water Pillar, while Sabito develops his own Breathing Style and becomes a Pillar (if you mind, please be aware).

4. There are some headcanons. I couldn't find a clear timeline in the Demon Slayer guidebook for when each Pillar joined the Corps and became a Pillar, so there will be some original details.

5. OOC, OOC, OOC (important enough to say three times). I'm not the original author, so I can't reproduce everything perfectly. The characters' behavior is based on the original work plus [this story's plot]. I'll do my best to stay true to them, but can't fully recreate them. My own interpretations are bound to influence the writing. We may see things differently, and there's no need to insist that I create characters according to your interpretation. Thank you! (Bows three times.) (So, please understand that comments of that sort will be deleted.)

6. I really can't write little romance scenes and things like that!!! This blurb is already so, so long (sob).

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