Senior Brother, You're in My Way

[Genius sword cultivator junior sister x automatically following shield-bearer senior brother]

Ye Qingzhou is always bragging that his junior sister is the best.

Ye Qingzhou is always cursing those heartless people who dare bully his frail junior sister.

As for his junior sister herself, Yue Zhonghua, she only thinks her senior brother is getting in the way of her cultivation.

She has lived a charmed life with the reputation of a genius, but when her master dies unexpectedly, she realizes that even geniuses need guidance.

Now she's struggling with cultivation, getting bullied, and saddled with a thankless task: teaching her senior brother to cultivate.

She can barely protect herself. How is she supposed to teach her senior brother to cultivate? Even their master couldn't teach him!

Other people's senior brothers are powerful cultivators who shelter them from wind and rain. Her senior brother has no cultivation at all and just causes trouble for her.

She's determined to slay demons and avenge her parents, but her senior brother brings a monster home and nearly gets her killed by a demon.

Please, senior brother, stop getting in the way of her already rocky cultivation journey!

The more she thinks about it, the angrier she gets. She stabs her senior brother with her sword, only to find that... it doesn't even leave a scratch?

All these years, she never knew he was impervious to blades and immune to spiritual power. Great, now there's hope!

With her senior brother standing in front to shield her, her quest for revenge against monsters goes much more smoothly.

A beast opens its cavernous jaws, and he thrusts a fist inside, breaking its teeth. A spirit stirs up a storm of spiritual power, and he holds her in his arms, unscathed.

But does he really need to hold her that tightly?

Though the shield is useful, she still can't help wondering: if her senior brother is her master's son, why can't he cultivate?

Suspicion takes root in everyone's heart, until rumors spread through the sect that there's something odd about his background.

Amid all the turmoil, she firmly stands by her senior brother and promises to keep helping him find a way to cultivate. But he blushes and shakes his head, telling her to avenge her parents before worrying about anything else.

They struggle onward until the day she finally gets her revenge. Facing the culprit who took her parents from her, he once again steps in front of her without hesitation. The next moment, he flies through the air like a bird and crashes into a pool of blood.

This time, she steps in front of him. He struggles back to his feet, blood appearing at the corner of his mouth as he smiles.

"Junior Sister, why are you crying?"

(Originally titled Cultivation Doesn't Need a Partner)

Theme: Everyone has something they can't let go of. Perhaps only by letting go can we embrace it.