My name is Traveler, and my username is "Chen Lijun Has Fallen for Me."
My first day in the cultivation world after the System dumped me there: a deserted island, scorching sun, almost out of provisions, and my companion nowhere in sight. A month later, I fished a white emergency ration out of the sea.
"I'm Paimon! I'm not emergency food!"
With Paimon around, life finally had some color. We boarded a strange spirit ship, but then the ship sank and everyone ran off, leaving only a side quest: escape the sunken ship's secret realm within a month or die.
The secret realm was full of relics from ten thousand years ago. A diary, half a scroll of silk, and a glowing seashell all pointed to a massacre among the merfolk. The Sea God's younger sister was raised by humans, then made into a human sacrifice by them. Wearing her wedding dress, she stabbed herself through the throat at her wedding, believing until her dying breath that her own brother was already gone.
"Traveler, what should we do?"
"Break the cycle and take the seashell to him."
"But you're only at the first level of Qi Refining. You can't even beat a ghost!"
"What's there to fear? I've got you."
"Paimon can't fight! Paimon can only eat!"
"...Then we'll win them over with your appetite."
This was a reunion spanning ten thousand years. Paimon and I just happened to pass by.
--The best companions are more than just words.
Theme: The best companion
