Playing a Half-Immortal on a Seventies Sea Island

★ Next book: *No Occult Practices in the Apocalypse* ★ The author is a compulsive reviser. Writing is hard, so please support the official release! Xie Guanyue is a once-in-a-millennium Taoist prodigy in the modern era. She’s mastered the five Taoist arts, able to summon gods and command spirits, suppress evil forces, and drive out demons. There’s nothing she can’t do. After failing to survive her tribulation, she transmigrates into a 1970s novel, becoming the sickly beauty with the same name who meets a tragic end as a disposable character. From the start, she’s up against a disastrous situation. Her entire family is branded as “leaders of feudal superstition.” They’re sent to a remote island, forced to live in a cowshed and do the dirtiest, hardest work. One by one, her relatives pass away, leaving only her emaciated little brother for her to depend on. She’s plagued by illness and must also stay on guard against the ill intentions of the men in the village. Everyone is waiting to see her make a fool of herself. Xie Guanyue simply raises her head toward the sky and smiles faintly. “Let’s see who gets the last laugh.” Before long, strange things start happening on the island. The seas turn violent, fishermen’s boats capsize one after another, people drown at the docks, a strange illness spreads through the village, several educated youths die violent deaths, and soldiers on night watch keep hearing ghostly weeping out at sea. Yet no one can do anything about it. The older generation thinks it’s retribution. The Sea God Temple was burned down, the sea-calming stone destroyed, and the shrine smashed... Now that an evil sea spirit is causing trouble, what can they do but wait to die? Panic grips the island. But then... The patients Western medicine can’t help are cured by one bowl of Xie Guanyue’s talisman-infused medicine. A vengeful ghost at the educated youths’ compound is seeking lives, so she casually performs a rite to send it on to reincarnation. Evil spirits haunt the seaside every night, but she forms a hand seal and chants a spell, and in an instant the wind and waves die down. Even the people who once bullied the original owner are plagued by bad luck and suffer the consequences of their actions. The fishing village is stunned! The frail Comrade Xie only has to step in once, and the waves calm, the strange happenings stop, and everyone can go out to sea safely! Xie Guanyue says, “They’re just folk remedies. There’s no need to make a fuss.” The old fishermen agree to her face, but secretly vow to protect Little Comrade Xie from now on. No one is allowed to bully her again! Later on, The villagers she cures vie to help her with her work. The educated youths line up to become her underlings, eager to work like oxen and horses for her. Even the officials secretly send her medals, begging her to leave the island and help deal with their problems. She breaks misfortune and overcomes obstacles, strikes down evil with thunder, destroys witchcraft, undoes curses, clears away evil and brings peace to the seas, and vanquishes evil to restore order to the world! Before long, Xie Guanyue is revered by the world. Those who commit evil deeds tremble at the mere mention of her. Yet Xie Guanyue remains unmoved by praise or blame. She only wants to be an unassuming nobody. By day, she earns work points and memorizes quotations, playing the part of a good comrade with impeccable revolutionary credentials. By night, she draws talismans, makes pills, cultivates her powers, and occasionally travels to the underworld to guide lost souls. Her life is carefree and content. Unbeknownst to her, a gaze far too intense has long been watching her from the shadows. She is a living immortal whom everyone reveres and fears. And she is the only deity he keeps in his heart. A stunning beauty and occult master, decisive and outspoken, with a fierce temper, clear likes and dislikes, and a grudge that never goes unavenged VS A cold on the outside, warm on the inside, taciturn and thoughtful iron-blooded soldier, steadfast and decisive in battle Reader’s guide: 1. The male lead is strong, but the female lead is even stronger. She’s a genuine living immortal. The romance and plot are split evenly. 2. Sweet romance, one-on-one pairing, both leads are inexperienced. The male lead is three years older than the female lead. 3. Long story. I won’t abandon it or end it badly. 4. The medical details aren’t professional. They’re based on things found online and in books, mainly *Compendium of Materia Medica*, *Chinese Medicine Formulas*, *The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon*, and *Taoist Medicine* by Hu Yixuan. 5. Occult elements may take up a large portion of the story. All non-scientific methods are made up, so don’t take them too seriously. Some reference works include *The Book of Changes*, *The Mysterious Gates of the Dunjia*, *The Book of Burial*, *The Classic of the Blue Satchel*, *The Jade Ruler Classic*, *Five Methods of Geomancy*, and others. Theme: Good and evil are always repaid, and the way of Heaven always comes full circle.