After retiring from the combat division of the Quick Transmigration Bureau, Song Hao transmigrated into a book as a disciple of the Chu Yun Sect, which was about to be wiped out.
The sect leader, Chu Mu, was the story's greatest villain. Five years later, the arrogant male lead would level the Chu Yun Sect and unite the cultivation world.
But what did that have to do with Song Hao? She just wanted to retire, raise chickens, and farm.
In the book, she was an unnamed outer-sect disciple who fed chickens. Even the chickens she raised were sickly.
The sick chickens were missing limbs, all skin and bones. They huddled in their coop all day with vacant eyes, refusing to eat even chicken feed.
That wouldn't do!
Song Hao worked tirelessly to raise them into fine, healthy chickens, but things soon took a strange turn:
Her chickens grew seven-colored tail feathers.
Her chickens didn't crow. They fought.
From time to time, her chickens brought her junk: a strange pot, a few withered medicinal herbs... and even a phoenix covered in wounds!
The phoenix was proud and refused to stay in the chicken coop. It demanded that she tend to it personally and serve it good food. She couldn't scold it, either, or it would start crying. Every time it showed up, it was covered in wounds.
A few days later, her chickens brought her a gorgeous amnesiac, too.
The beauty was even harder to please. She was determined to marry Song Hao, was petty and jealous, and kept calling her "wife," yet never gave her the chance to take charge in bed...
The beauty was so gorgeous and so skilled that Song Hao enjoyed herself, even though her back ached every day.
Then one day, the male lead from the rumors became a destitute bandit and took her hostage in a desperate gamble.
"You really think Chu Mu loves you?"
"She's only using you to maintain her spiritual power!"
The male lead, hysterical, took Song Hao to the Chu Yun Sect's main hall.
Clouds and mist swirled as everyone prostrated themselves. The woman in the clouds had jade-like features, and even the way she lowered and raised her eyes radiated natural nobility. She was none other than Song Hao's usually delicate, pampered wife.
"Song Hao? A clueless blockhead, and you people are counting on her?"
The woman's red lips curled in mockery. Phoenix fire erupted around her, filling the heavens with screams as every captive below her was reduced to ashes.
"See? Chu Mu's been lying to you all along. We..."
The male lead stared in disbelief at the sword through his heart, meeting Song Hao's smiling yet icy peach-blossom eyes.
"So what?"
"I don't want to understand your conflicts. I'm just a simple chicken feeder."
The male lead looked at the legendary divine sword in Song Hao's hand, the one no one was said to be able to draw. He spat out blood with a puff, his teeth clenched to pieces.
What a perfectly ordinary, simple chicken feeder!
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Chu Mu knew she had lost.
Her cultivation had been suppressed by an unknown force, and she could only wait helplessly for her death.
But the remnants of her mother's faction appeared from nowhere, taking her to a woman called Song Hao.
Song Hao was unambitious, lazy, and dim-witted, but the soup she brewed loosened the block in Chu Mu's stalled spiritual power. Even simply touching Song Hao could double the effectiveness of Chu Mu's cultivation.
At first, Chu Mu only wanted to use Song Hao to restore her spiritual power. She even resorted to seduction, pretending to be an amnesiac woman to get close to her.
She thought she could leave Song Hao whenever she wanted. But when she heard that Song Hao had suddenly left the mountain, the usually composed Chu Mu went mad...
"All the myriad wonders of mortal life, the endless path to immortality: my wife, Song Hao, is the best in every way..."
Later, Chu Mu personally wrote these words as the first line of the preface to The Biography of Chu Mu.
A heroine with exceptional obliviousness, immense strength, and an optimistic, nurturing disposition X a beautiful, arrogant, obsessive heroine who thinks her feelings are false and doesn't realize she's in love.
Theme: Improve your own strength at all times. Only by possessing strength of your own can you remain invincible