Yun Li was once young and full of ambition, determined to reach the very pinnacle of the sword path. But reality told her that after eighty years of cultivation, she was still only at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, a talentless good-for-nothing with no aptitude for swordsmanship.
Then she met a beautiful, sharp-tongued bamboo spirit in the bamboo grove, and her confidence returned! She was sure she’d soon reach the Golden Core stage. She didn’t understand why the bamboo spirit had given her a green jade token and kept making her draw strange talismans every day, but if it helped her advance, she’d even eat the talismans!
Who could have known that during the sect examination, the green jade token would break, and everyone would tell her that the bamboo spirit was actually Gongsun Zhu, the Tianxuan Sect’s chief disciple, who had colluded with demons and harmed fellow disciples?
After being implicated and driven out of the Spirit Sword Sect, Yun Li is taken back to the Tianxuan Sect by Gongsun Zhu. So what if she becomes a sword cultivator? So what if she becomes a talisman cultivator? As long as she can reach the very pinnacle, what’s wrong with cultivating talismans?
Theme: Youthful striving
