She Yu is an utterly ordinary music student. After accidentally entering a sacred site, she lost a leg after losing a bet with the Holy Lord.
From then on, her life gained an additional goal: find her leg.
For as long as she had been crippled, she traveled from one sacred site to another in search of that Holy Lord.
Unfortunately, every sacred site she entered afterward contained a different Holy Lord from the one who had taken her leg.
By a twist of fate, she obtained a crutch.
In ordinary life, the crutch helped her walk on level ground. Inside sacred sites, it could even keep her alive.
Beyond that, She Yu discovered its most wonderful use: pretending to be weak.
Sacred sites gathered powerful figures from every walk of life. Everyone aimed to find a Holy Lord and claim them as their own, which conflicted with her goal of recovering her leg.
To blend into the crowd and reduce her presence, the crutch that could enter sacred sites with her proved immensely useful.
After taking two steps, she stumbled and fell. The crutch rolled far away. Powerful Figure Number One helped her up and retrieved the crutch as well. "Are you all right? I'll find a way to let you follow me later."
As she clung to the crutch and struggled up the stairs, Powerful Figure Number Two passed by and reached out to pull her up, gruff but kind-hearted. "If you're this useless, you shouldn't have come in. You're nothing but a burden."
Someone in the sacred site broke their agreement and acted recklessly, ambushing the Holy Lord only to be discovered. As everyone searched for the traitor and began suspecting her, Powerful Figure Number Three immediately stood up to vouch for her. "She can barely walk. There's no way she could get close to the Holy Lord. It can't be her."
Pretending to be weak was different from her usual way of doing things, but as the saying went, it was better to make friends than enemies, and she could not defeat every powerful figure.
She had opened the door to a whole new world, and it was quite enjoyable to pretend to be weak and reap the benefits afterward.
Even more miraculously, whenever people felt pity for her, an endless stream of energy transformed into "pity points" and flowed into the crutch.
The crutch told her that once the pity points reached a certain threshold, it would give her something of corresponding value.
After it happened enough times, pretending to be weak became second nature.
She entered another sacred site, where the Holy Lord was extremely dangerous and powerful experts were gathered everywhere.
She used her old trick and fell in front of Powerful Figure Number Four.
But Powerful Figure Number Four was different from everyone before: they remained unmoved and walked right past her without sparing her even a glance.
She Yu: ?
Was there really someone immune to her perfected acting skills?
#Powerful Figure Number One: I have a high-level nightmare artifact
Powerful Figure Number Two: I am the chosen daughter of fortune
Powerful Figure Number Three: I have a lucky die
Yu Yu proudly raises her head: I have a crutch#
P.S.:
1. This is not infinite flow in the traditional sense.
2. Although it is tagged as a rules horror story, rules will not appear in every instance.
3. The heroine has a love interest.
4. The first instance is the "obtaining the crutch" mentioned in the blurb. She begins her life of pretending to be weak in the later instances.
5. I will add more if I think of anything else :)
Premise: Earnestly cultivating one's life makes it perfect.
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