Xi Ling is a lingzhi spirit.
A thousand-year-old lingzhi spirit is a treasure beyond compare.
When she had just learned to take human form, Xi Ling spent every day from dawn to dusk running for her life. Eating her was so nourishing that ordinary mortals could be replenished until their seven orifices bled and their bodies burst, while cultivators could be nourished straight into immortality. Every living being in the Six Realms wanted to eat her.
By the time she was two thousand, the people who wanted to eat her had died off, generation after generation, or ascended. There were hardly any opponents left who could match her, and only then did Xi Ling finally enjoy some peace and quiet.
She lived in seclusion in the mountains, cultivating when she felt like it and reading storybooks when she did not, content with her life.
One day, a fierce battle broke out at the foot of the mountain, leaving just one survivor.
She found a young man covered in blood.
His injuries were severe, and saving him would take a great deal of effort. She might even have to use her own spiritual essence.
Xi Ling was still hesitating, until she cleaned the young man's face...
She made up her mind! She would save him! She had to! And once he was healed, she would keep him in the mountains and raise him!!! Raise him until he died!!!!
Several hundred years later...
He still had not died.
But the one thing no one in the Six Realms had ever managed to do, this man she had picked up accomplished perfectly.
She really got eaten (*/ω\*)…!
*A lingzhi spirit of advanced age with the heart of a young girl x a handsome Taoist priest, gentle as jade on the surface but a real badass when he gets serious
*The male lead is a Taoist priest among mortals and a Celestial Venerable in heaven.
*One-line summary: At first, everyone in the Six Realms wanted to eat me. After a certain someone ate me... everyone in the Six Realms takes a detour when they see me :)
*Title and blurb written on August 19. Please do not borrow the premise.
Theme: A lighthearted xianxia story. The male and female leads are both immortals who descended to the mortal realm to undergo trials. This is a healing xianxia romance.