A Sword Cultivator's Jungle Journal

A compassionate, stone-faced, powerful heroine x a proud, sickly, pretty hero

[Plot-driven | Ensemble cast of young people | Mystery-solving and exploration | 1v1, both sexually inexperienced]

A new list has just appeared in the cultivation world! It’s called “The Most Hated Cultivators in the Realm.”

Compared with those dull lists from previous years, like “The Cultivation World’s Best Couples,” “Beauty Rankings,” and “Sect Uniform Rankings,”

this one is far more interesting, and cultivators everywhere are eager to take part.

Come on! The path of cultivation is already tedious and boring. How can you get by without gossiping about other people? And this time, you can do it out in the open.

Everyone rolls up their sleeves. One vote here, one vote there, and with remarkable unanimity, they send one person straight to the top of the list.

Yun Duanyue: direct disciple of the Sword Sect’s leader, the most talented in a century, Golden Core at thirteen and Nascent Soul at seventeen, a genius sword cultivator who has taken the world by storm for years and is only eighteen.

The sort of person everyone else’s parents wish they had. Naturally, all the other cultivators are jealous and resentful.

People often say, “Everyone remembers first place, but no one remembers second.”

But that saying clearly doesn’t apply to this kind of ranking.

At number two is Xie Gongqiu: a direct disciple of the Divine Farmers’ Valley leader. He didn’t even begin cultivating until he was ten, yet reached the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm in just eight years. He’s the most beautiful man in the cultivation world, but his tongue is so sharp that he never lets anyone off easy!

In short, he’s powerful, beautiful, and venomously sharp-tongued.

What a nuisance!

He’s always sickly, too.

He hasn’t actually done anything wrong, but still… what a nuisance!

Then one day, the top two meet, and the cultivators settle in to watch them dislike each other on sight.

But no news of a clash ever comes. Instead, the cultivators are stunned by something else: Good heavens! Since when have the most hated number one and number two been inseparable?

*Reader’s guide:

① This isn’t a conventional cultivation novel. No sect competitions, monster-slaying, or leveling up. The main plot follows a small team solving mysteries and exploring, making new friends, and fighting along the way.

② It starts slowly, so please give it a few chapters! A bunch of brats ×

③ The plot-to-romance ratio is 6:4. The hero doesn’t appear until after chapter ten. Keywords you might want to know: tsundere peacock + spoiled darling.

④ Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Body Integration, Great Ascension.

The six sects: sword cultivators, Buddhist cultivators, medical cultivators, poison cultivators, music cultivators, and talisman cultivators.

Theme: The bright moon above the clouds