After Bringing Back the Divine Child

The young sect leader Lu Xingyun climbed a mountain and met a man as beautiful as an immortal, with an elegant, refined air.

He wanted to build a super sect, and needed someone capable of supporting one.

As it happened, the divine artifact Jin Tianji didn't want anyone to discover he wasn't human. He wanted to team up with someone who didn't mind touching him, whom he wouldn't mind touching, and who treated him like a person.

Among countless people, he picked Lu Xingyun at first sight.

All things in the world counterbalance one another. There is no absolute supremacy or invincibility. Legend has it that when the Supreme Saint created the divine artifact Heart Lamp, another divine artifact was born in response to the will of Heaven and Earth to keep it in check.

For reasons unknown, this artifact was born ten thousand years late. Calling himself the Divine Son, he took up residence on Sacred Mountain, drawing countless cultivators from across the land, all hoping to see his true face.

Divine artifact Heart Lamp: I can grant everyone else's wishes.

Divine artifact Jin Tianji: Everyone, come grant my wishes!

Let everyone in the world grant my wishes, while I grant yours.

They both pursue each other. The construction-and-development side of the story isn't grounded in reality. The pursuer is a naturally born divine artifact, and the protagonist's greatest golden finger.

An omnipotent, nonhuman divine artifact: a peerlessly beautiful pursuer who's incredibly difficult to handle, yet happily gives everything to the pursued x a discreet, steady, and all-around worthwhile sect leader who is the pursued.

Pursued male lead, 1v1, happy ending.

Upcoming novel: "The Unusually Immortal Emperor," age gap, with the younger character as the pursuer.

The Demon Venerable Chong Ze accepted benefits from the celestial officials and went to teach a certain prince of an ancient kingdom a lesson.

This prince had terrible bones and questionable talent. The emperor didn't value him, he was bullied in the palace, and even the junior eunuchs pushed him around. Everyone enjoyed picking on him.

After meeting him, the Demon Venerable kicked everyone in the palace and went home. "I'm done!"

The celestial officials were delighted when the prince, who had taken his previous misfortune in stride, began to look glum.

But they were also afraid, because the prince's luck had turned, and he was becoming more and more like the Immortal Emperor he had once been...

Cool, celibate, proper, and nine-tenths identical in appearance to the Immortal Emperor. When ordinary immortals saw him, they no longer dared to act recklessly.

The celestial officials wailed and rushed to the Demon Venerable, again and again,

with better benefits, a humbler attitude, and a bigger show of respect: "You rule the human world. You must leave him there to suffer. Please, we're begging you!"

The Demon Venerable had no choice, whether out of duty or reason, but to keep coming and going from the life of this noble prince.

Actually, at their second meeting, the cool, proud prince's eyes turned faintly red, and he took the initiative to speak to the Demon Venerable, completely out of character.

Later, whenever the Demon Venerable said he was leaving, the prince would be reluctant to let him go.

Later still, whenever the Demon Venerable got up, the prince would come over and tug at his sleeve. "Please don't go."

The Demon Venerable nearly lost control several times. When the prince finally confessed his feelings, he wasn't nervous anymore. If the prince was willing to let him do anything, he should be edible, right?

And then he ate him.

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Later, the Immortal Emperor reclaimed his throne.

The Demon Venerable, ruler of the human world, calmly had his subordinate present him with a neatly organized list of the Immortal Emperor's enemies. Break up, team up, remain strangers, or become enemies: the Immortal Emperor could interpret it however he liked.

That very day, the Immortal Emperor appeared outside his bedroom in the Demon Palace. The corners of his phoenix eyes were red, just like when they'd met for the second time, but this time it was from anger. "I agree."

The Demon Venerable: "Huh?"

The Immortal Emperor: "We'll use this list of names for our wedding invitations."

#FromSecretCrushToOpenLove##LovedAndSpoiledWithoutFear#

#CoolCelibateImmortalEmperorReincarnatedInTheHumanWorldAndHumblyCrushesOnTheColdBloodedStrongestBoss#

One-line pitch: Celestial officials are always bribing this venerable one to deal with the Immortal Emperor's reincarnation.

We were never meant to meet. It's all thanks to your enemies paying me.

Cool, celibate Immortal Emperor pursuer x unfeeling overlord of the human world, the Demon Venerable, age gap, with the pursued as the older character.

Human cultivation levels:

Cultivation begins with refining spirit into a seed; opening the earth and unlocking the apertures; gathering the primordial soul; entering carefree divinity; and mastering the transformations of the heavens.

Survive the tribulation and enter the Dao; become a saint in flower and leaf; grow a divine tree from the fruit of the Dao; become a Venerable of the Dao; unite the ten thousand laws and become Supreme through merging with the Dao.

Become an immortal and live forever.

The Demon Venerable Chong Ze (Yan Ze, courtesy name Yun Ke) is not included in this system.

Author's Notes:

1. Readers with strong preferences for one side of the pairing should steer clear.

2. This novel's construction-and-development elements aren't grounded in reality. There will be no farming or wilderness reclamation. I mainly wanted to build a school for older people who regret not studying hard back then and think, "That's nothing. If I'd had the chance, I'd have been better than most young cultivators in the world." But whether reality matches their boasts is another matter... The events in this story definitely couldn't happen in real life.

2. I want to keep things lighthearted and try to write a decent bathroom read!

Theme: There are no absolutely unsolvable problems in this world. The possibility of an absolutely unsolvable predicament is perfection.