The more I think about it, the less I like it. I probably won't continue this anytime soon. 20240526
The cultivation world, where spiritual energy was thin, revived overnight.
Geniuses emerged from every corner, turning the long-stagnant Prodigy Rankings upside down.
When something abnormal happens, there must be a cause. After the powerful figures of the cultivation world investigated from every angle, they discovered that the newly risen prodigies all had the same shadow behind them, known as the System.
What is the System? As the first disciple of Zhenjun Jiyue, the number one prodigy in the cultivation world... Taiping doesn't really care.
After all, diligently cultivating every day, managing the mountain gate, looking after her junior brothers and sisters, and dealing with all sorts of invitations on behalf of her reclusive master already keep her busy enough.
Until the night her sect opened enrollment, when she dreamed of something called the Harem System going after her master and fellow disciples.
From then on...
Her well-behaved, obedient junior brother started ordering her around for someone else's sake.
Her clingy junior sister started punching her for someone else's sake.
Even her usually aloof and reserved master began speaking harshly to her for someone else's sake!
"Absolutely not!"
Taiping jolted awake and immediately signed up for the demon-extermination squad.
She had to look after her junior brothers and sisters herself, and protect her master herself!
Anyone who dares covet them
will be shown no mercy.
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Ming Heng, Zhenjun Jiyue, is widely regarded as the sword cultivator no one should dare provoke. But he has a secret that must never be revealed: his true form is not human, but a flower.
Since he dislikes going out, every one of his vulnerable blooming seasons has passed peacefully since his birth, until Taiping signed up for the System-cleansing operation and was about to leave his side frequently.
This is bad.
A flower cannot be away from its soil for too long.
And Ming Heng's soil is Taiping.
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Taiping has no idea how things ended up with the whole sect setting out together to complete the cleansing mission. She only knows some very unpleasant rumors have started circulating in the cultivation world.
Her fellow cultivators laugh at her for being a coward, taking her master along on an expedition.
Her enemies accuse her of double standards and playing dirty, since she uses cheats herself.
Taiping decides to change all that.
She will refuse to let her master come along.
No cheating in cultivation, starting with me!
Theme: Uphold the righteous path of cultivation, and banish cheat systems.