Asking About Life

At the age of five, Shi Wei was brought back to the Taiqing Sect.

The elders of the Taiqing Sect told her that she was destined to be alone, and only an immortal sect could suppress her fate. She believed them.

After ten years of grueling cultivation, she became the sect's youngest prodigy, blessed with extraordinary spiritual roots and unmatched swordsmanship.

She thought this place was home.

Until the day her junior sister's spiritual roots were destroyed.

Her master and junior brother joined forces, ignoring her desperate pleas as they ripped out her spiritual roots and gave them to her junior sister.

"Shi Wei, you're talented. You can cultivate again."

You can cultivate again.

She became a cripple, struggling to survive at the bottom of the sect while watching her junior sister flourish on the spiritual roots stolen from her.

The day of the Dao Discussion arrived beneath a clear sky. Her junior sister won first place, and the senior brother she admired, beaming with delight, took her hand and declared their bond as cultivation partners in front of everyone.

Shi Wei stood below the platform and suddenly laughed.

So they had brought her back to the sect to groom her for this day. So her junior sister's spiritual roots had never been destroyed. They had just wanted to steal hers.

Was there anything in this Taiqing Sect that was real?

She turned and walked away, never looking back.

Later, the cultivation world learned of a cripple whose spiritual roots had been ripped out, yet who had fought her way through blood and fire, rebuilt her spiritual roots, comprehended the sword and pursued the Dao, killing any god who stood in her way.

Someone asked her why she refused to give up.

"Because all I want is to stay alive!"

Theme: No matter how desperate your situation is, believe that you can succeed