I've Wanted to Stop Being an Immortal Lord's Disciple for a Long Time

1 The Immortal Lord, revered as the foremost person in the immortal realm, is first in two things. He's the strongest fighter in the entire immortal realm, having once driven back the whole demon clan by himself. He married the Moon Goddess Yue Yan, the most beautiful woman in the immortal realm, making countless immortals beat their chests in despair. However, a thousand years ago, the Immortal Lord's wife, the Moon Goddess Yue Yan, perished. From then on, the Immortal Lord shut himself away and stopped concerning himself with the affairs of the immortal realm. Just when everyone was worried he might turn into a stone, the Immortal Lord descended to the mortal world and brought back an eight-year-old girl. She was a mortal. The Immortal Lord, who hadn't spoken in a thousand years, declared, "Su Qingye will also be my final disciple." 2 Su Qingye was the little disciple the Immortal Lord brought back from the mortal realm, the center of everyone's attention and the talk of the town. Everyone said she must have accumulated a hundredfold good fortune to become the Immortal Lord's disciple. Only Su Qingye knew that being his disciple was no easy task. She had to come first in the martial arts tournament among all the immortal sects. She had to come first in the debate on the Dao among all the immortal sects. She had to come first in the music, chess, calligraphy, and painting contest among all the immortal sects. Even when sent to guard the border between the immortals and demons, she had to slay more demons than anyone else. Only then would she earn a word of praise from her master: "Not bad." In her previous life, Su Qingye admired and loved the Immortal Lord, working diligently for over a thousand years. In all that time, she received only four "Not bads" from her master. At last, as she crossed the tribulation to ascend, her body was full of hidden ailments. The Nine Heavens' Divine Thunder struck her dead, body and soul. In this life, Su Qingye only wants to be a lazy nobody. She doesn't want to be first in anything. She just wants to live. Ideally, she won't ascend in this life at all, and will live peacefully for ten thousand years or so. Yet in this life, the Immortal Lord, his blood-red eyes brimming with regret, kneels before her. His pale lips tremble as he softly calls to her, "Yanyan, you're back." [Screenshot from May 19, 2020] [Cover artist: Yu Zi] Theme: .