My System Is the Heavenly Dao

After being bound to the "Number One Sword Under Heaven" cultivation System, Ying He could only complete missions while searching for his lost memories.

But why did this cultivation System only assign missions and strike him with lightning? Where were the rewards for completing missions? Where was the cultivation?

He finally uncovered the truth behind the Mirror Corpse case, sealed the ancient Mirror Spirit, and saved the lives of everyone in the city, but the System had no response. He rescued his martial nephew from danger in an illusion formation and put an end to the fixation that had caused the formation, but the System had no response. At the sect tournament, he led his sect to first place and won unanimous praise, but the System still had no response.

Fine. No response was still better than getting struck by lightning.

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After Ying He woke up with amnesia, he was bound to the System. If he didn't want to be struck by lightning, he had to obediently complete his missions.

Mission One: Uncover the truth behind the Mirror Corpse case.

Ying He first caught a mysterious man named Chen Qingxun in Mirror Prefecture City. The man had been following him for days and bore a striking resemblance to him. Later, Ying He uncovered the truth and did everything he could to seal the ancient Mirror Spirit again.

[Mission One complete.]

Ying He: My memories haven't come back, and Chen Qingxun is so mysterious.

Mission Two: Rescue his martial nephew.

His nephew wandered into an illusion formation while traveling. Ying He hurried over with Chen Qingxun to save him. As they broke the formation, his nephew wept with emotion nearby. Ying He held a letter he had never managed to deliver, thinking how regrettable it was that fate had kept the living and dead apart. Chen Qingxun took the letter and said he knew a way to deliver it.

[Mission Two complete.]

Ying He: My memories haven't come back, but Chen Qingxun seems pretty capable.

Mission Three: Take part in the sect tournament and win first place.

Ying He had always been reluctant to let Chen Qingxun learn about his sect, which had, among other things: a senior brother who loved using moral pressure; a junior brother who handed his list of enemies to his demonized disciple and told him to kill every last one; a martial nephew who listened to recorded lectures to fall asleep and somehow gained enlightenment; and a disciple who studied braille before a culture exam just so he could cheat successfully...

Ying He had originally gone down the mountain to get away from the sect he grew up in.

[Mission Three complete.]

Ying He: My memories have come back a tiny bit. Even an ugly sect has to meet one's Daoist partner.

At last, after Ying He defeated the villain and became the Number One Under Heaven, the System finally awarded him a reward and told him it was actually the Heavenly Dao.

Ying He: "I knew that already."

The Heavenly Dao dropped a bombshell before leaving: "Actually, your Daoist partner and I are brothers."

Ying He: "?"

[Reading Guide]

1. [Self-sacrificing, wisecracking genius sword cultivator bottom × adorable, nonhuman consciousness of the Abyss top]. Two little lovebirds stumble through saving the world.

The "brothers" mentioned at the end of the blurb aren't brothers in the conventional sense. The Heavenly Dao and the Abyss share the same origin, but one is conscious while the other is nebulous and insubstantial, so you could call them brothers, I suppose (thinking).

2. The mystery and deduction parts of the plot are pretty weak, so please don't overanalyze them. I wanted to write something lighthearted and silly. I'm an octopus, don't scold me.

3. My own take on cultivation.

Theme: Embrace love, accept love, and remember what it feels like to be loved.