Wielding a Halberd

A body forged from dark iron, dragon bone for an arrowhead, phoenix feathers for fletching. Gu Zhiyi was the first person in the Xuanming Great Realm to attain the Great Dao through a weapon body.

Everyone said Gu Zhiyi was the sharpest arrow in Xuanming. With a heart of dark iron, cold feelings, and a cold heart, he was destined to be a peerless genius of the Heartless Dao.

But no one knew that on the night he attained the Great Dao, the very night everyone envied him, a heart demon appeared for the first time in history as the final tribulation of the eighty-one thunderbolts struck. The heart demon, identical in appearance to him, laughed softly and whispered in his ear, "To attain heartlessness, you must first... have feelings."

In his past life, Gu Zhiyi had been an absolute fool. He'd been hopelessly devoted to an ice-cold block of stone, to the point of wanting to live or die for them. In the end, he sacrificed himself to forge a weapon and died in a spray of blood, without even leaving a scrap behind. That person never so much as poked their head out to show their face.

Before his next life began, he thought bitterly, "Why the hell should I put up with this?" So he trampled all those awful memories into the dirt, struggled to shut away every last one of his emotions, and wiped his past clean. Then he decisively cultivated the Heartless Dao.

Who could have guessed that the heedless Heavens would decide he was still too attached to the past, and send him a heart demon bundle of 999 right as he faced the critical moment of his tribulation? Sure enough, he was left baffled and coughing up blood, while the shameless heart demon demanded that he "seek love."

What else could he do? He went along with it. Who knew that not only would he remember all those awful things, but he would also break his Heartless Dao and fall into the same cabbage patch all over again...

"Yi means to shoot. To shoot and take, therefore yi means to take."

Mo Zheng, you said that once people have power, they can take whatever they desire. This world was once nothing but mud, and then suddenly a light appeared. I was overjoyed, and reached for it with my bow. Why, in the end, was I still left with nothing?

Tags and content warnings:

1. A cold, powerful bow-wielding master with a furnace body, as the bottom x an obsessive disciple who sacrificed himself to forge a weapon, as the top. There is a secondary couple; their story unfolds naturally.

2. Slow burn! The couple appears very late, and they get more page time in Volume Two. Little darlings who want to read about the couple can skip straight to Volume Two! But if you have the patience, it's best to read Volume One too.

3. Top's perspective. An unconventional rebirth. Another story in my collection has nothing to do with this one!

4. Sharp-sugar warning, but it absolutely has a happy ending! Protecting our hearts is everyone's responsibility!

5. The protagonist's personal experience! This story teaches us: A doormat who never turns back won't end up with a grave over their head. Love isn't something you can have just because you want it!

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Theme: Love isn't salvation, but it is better than salvation.