Apprentice and older shizun | Xianxia mystery | Strange tales and supernatural beings
Clingy, scheming, obsessive ferocious-beast apprentice × hapless, laid-back shizun forced to work
What do you do when you die and end up inside a game world?
The good news: Shen Yi is a pro esports player who led his team to win the S8 Ascension League championship. He's unbelievably good.
The bad news: He announced his retirement three months ago and even deleted his account in front of everyone. A lot of the advantages he had are no longer available.
The even worse news: He's bound to some inexplicable System that says it'll erase him if he doesn't complete his missions, and it'll erase him if he refuses them, too. And the stupid System hasn't given Shen Yi any cheats!
No matter. Even if the System is useless, Shen Yi still has an apprentice with a maximum affection score for him. Isn't that the perfect tool at his disposal?
Wait, why is his apprentice looking at him like that?
Damn it! Why are these missions so difficult, and why are there so many strange incidents?
The top sect in Hezhou has been infiltrated like a sieve. A fireworks festival in Feizhou turns out to involve an absurd sacrifice. Then disaster strikes the immortal-chef competition in Changzhou…
In the end, all the clues lead back to Shen Yi's own apprentice.
Shen Yi: “Xuanqing, tell me the truth.”
Mo Xuanqing: “Shizun, I just like you too much. QAQ”
When Mo Xuanqing first went to Cangling Valley to seek immortality, his eyes burned with hatred. But an immortal told him not to let his past hold him back. That immortal would later become Mo Xuanqing's shizun.
His shizun was gentle and always smiling. When he was happy, his eyes curved, and his voice, like ice melting in a spring river, seemed to drift beyond the clouds.
His shizun was brilliant, and built Cangling Valley into the greatest sect in the world with ease, drawing talented people from every direction.
His shizun was always appearing and disappearing without warning. Sometimes Mo Xuanqing couldn't find him, but he never worried. No matter what happened, his shizun would appear at the mountain gate right on time at the hour of Chen. So when his shizun said he was going on a journey that day, Mo Xuanqing thought nothing of it.
But his shizun never came back. Mo Xuanqing frantically questioned everyone who had been at the Ascension Terrace, but they all told him his shizun would never return.
How could that be? His shizun disappeared, Cangling Valley changed hands, and the Northern Sacred Mountain appeared, all within a single month. Mo Xuanqing couldn't help suspecting some plot was behind it.
From that day onward, with every new dawn, no immortal in white robes appeared at the mountain gate to ask him how he was doing.
Where had his shizun gone? Mo Xuanqing didn't know.
Then, on a frosty night beneath a sky full of stars, the immortal he had longed for appeared again, stained with blood and fallen into this world. There was only one thought in Mo Xuanqing's mind: he would become strong enough to protect his shizun, no matter the cost.
Shizun, shizun, don't run away! I'm really here to protect you!
The Great Dao gives rise to fifty, Heaven's evolution accounts for forty-nine, and one escapes its grasp.
Reader's Guide:
1. A laid-back esports player is forced to work after entering a game world, solving mysteries and exploring all over the place with an apprentice who's a ticking time bomb of a ferocious beast. It's episodic, but the stories are connected.
2. The protagonist's past is tragic, but the main story has no tragedy.
3. The main pairing is Mo Xuanqing × Shen Yi. Some supporting characters are also couples, but their relationships won't get much attention. No swapping, no reversals, no wearing another character's identity, no self-insert fantasies, and no controlling behavior.
4. Updates follow the rankings when there are rankings. Otherwise, I'll update more slowly.
5. If you don't want to read the background setup, you can start at Chapter 3 without missing much. Still, I don't recommend skipping chapters, since the clues will matter later.
A silly adventure and mystery story, with the customs and people of a xianxia world
Expected to be nine volumes plus an epilogue, with a projected length of over 500,000 characters
Hezhou Chronicles: Above the Blue Heavens, draft complete
Feizhou Chronicles: Fireworks Moon, draft complete
Changzhou Chronicles: Taming the Waters, drafting
Yuzhou Chronicles: Planting Beans, outline complete
Xuanzhou Chronicles: Mountains and Seas Are Hard to Cross, outline complete
Mengzhou Chronicles: Hearing Demons, outline complete
Kangzhou Chronicles: Immortal in the Painting, outline complete
Seven Provinces Chronicles: Journey Beyond the Heavenly Wall, outline complete
Nine Wastes Annals: Record of Heavenly Secrets, draft complete, awaiting revisions
Modern Arc: Where the Heart Finds Peace, outline complete
Theme: Cherish life
