The Immortal Venerable Seems Like a Cold, Aloof Beauty [Reborn]

[Main story complete] Next up: Infinite-flow novel Codex Compiler. Pre-release xianxia novel Why Not Slay Me to Prove Your Dao, blurb at the bottom~ No one had ever lived a more wretched life than Cheng Que in his previous life. His sect was indifferent to him, both righteous and evil cultivators despised him, and the whole world cursed him. He asked for so little. He only hoped that when he practiced swordsmanship, Xuyi would look his way a little more often. But even as he was hunted down and killed by the great immortal sects for practicing the heretical path, the master he had always longed for never once looked him in the eye. The other man was radiant and immaculate, beyond reproach. Cheng Que was covered in disgrace, his heart dead as ashes. Seven years later, Cheng Que was reborn and discovered that the world had changed. His cold and heartless fellow disciples went out of their way to bring him food and drink, while the eldest disciple of his sworn enemy's sect enthusiastically took him by the hand and sat down to reminisce. Meanwhile, the martial world was in chaos. Because of a mysterious incident from eight years ago, people were killing each other and slaughtering immortal mountains. The one who started it all was none other than the world's greatest swordsman, Xuyi, who had always kept himself above worldly affairs and shunned conflict. In this new life, Cheng Que had no interest in the martial world's feuds. He planned to slip away amid the chaos and live in seclusion in the mountains. But Xuyi fought his way out of the melee like a madman and blocked him on the mountain path with a sword. Its tip dripped scarlet, and his eyes glowed blood-red. His former ethereal bearing was nowhere to be seen. "Cheng Que, didn't you want me to look at you?" Xuyi's breathing was ragged as he gritted out, "From now on, if anyone else dares look at you for too long, I'll gouge out their eyes." * Xuyi practiced an emotionless Dao throughout his life. He was handsome and ruthless, abstinent and aloof. Everyone said he was heartless, but no one knew that he had broken decades of strict discipline for one person. In an icy coffin, beneath a solitary lamp, eight years passed as he waited for someone who would never return. Righteous-path heretical cultivator who can do anything, world-class at playing weak and pitiful, well-behaved disciple Cheng Que (bottom) Cold, abstinent, aloof master, secretly a crazed and scheming jealous king, beloved master Xuyi Master is the top. Don't get them reversed. -- Codex Compiler [Infinite] Shi Yi discovered that the code making up the world had broken. In a lawless jungle with no logic, he saw the bloody remains of a dog randomly grafted onto the neck of a headless zombie. In an absurd, eerie rift in time and space, he realized that his teammates, just a wall away, were experiencing entirely different timelines. In a corrupted, out-of-control System program, he heard a teammate repeat the same sentence in a chilling voice, while his own communication device received no messages at all, as if cut off... Shi Yi was just one of many experimental robot test subjects. His sole mission was to blow up the world's central server and kill the programmer who wrote the world's code. The day before he entered the instance, the legendary all-win god-tier player appeared before everyone. He paid no attention to the frenzied invitations from the various teams, but to everyone's amazement and trepidation, he reached out to Shi Yi with an easy familiarity. "Nice to meet you. I'm Qin Jing, and I'm an experimental robot, too." * On the day they blew up the central server, the force of the blast was enough to smash a person to pieces. Shi Yi felt Qin Jing's blood-scented breath against his neck, hot and dangerous. "Little robot, you hacked the central System I worked so hard to write. Pick one," he said in a low, quiet voice. "Will you fall for me on your own, or should I go edit your emotional database?" #The programmer I want to kill is hiding right beside me!# -- Qin Jing's boyfriend became a vegetable in an explosion. He couldn't wake up, and his mind mistakenly believed he was a robot. The doctor recommended consciousness-guided therapy, but there had never been a successful case. Qin Jing spent three years using code to create a world, all to bring one person home. Brilliantly intelligent, can smash the System's head in with one hand, cool and aloof big shot Shi Yi (bottom) Ruthless and outspoken, protects his boyfriend unconditionally, formidable big shot Qin Jing -- Why Not Slay Me to Prove Your Dao Chu Wen x Su Huiyuan, cold immortal master top x mad ghost king bottom, powerful leads all the way Everyone knew that Chu Wen, the world's greatest sword cultivator, had a cinnabar mole in his heart and had remained unmarried for years. On the day he succeeded as the head of Mount Qi, people from across the land came to congratulate him and wish him success in wiping out the ghost realm and bringing peace to the world. No one expected the Ghost Lord Su Huiyuan to come, too. His long fingers toyed with a chain strung with human bones. His slightly narrowed eyes reflected a chilling contempt for everyone around him. He merely smiled and said, "The scar three inches below Senior Brother's chest, where I stabbed him, was delicious." Everyone knew the Ghost Lord ate people and drank their blood, while Chu Wen was as unyielding as a pine. They had been mortal enemies for years, each representing one side of the divide between righteous and evil. But few knew they had trained under the same master and had once sat close together over drinks, talking late into the night. Until... a cold knee pressed against the other's trembling wrist, and burning wine passed into the other's hoarse throat. * In his room, the Ghost Lord who made the whole world tremble now lay in a cage, an iron ring locked around his neck, his pale fingers curled into spasms. His eyes were bloodshot as he spat out a vicious curse. "Chu Wen, you took advantage of me when I was helpless! I'll * your whole family!" Chu Wen acted as though he hadn't heard. His icy eyes lowered as he cut a line into his wrist with a dagger. Blood spurted out, like cinnabar on a lotus. "Dear Junior Brother, you betrayed Mount Qi, became the Ghost King, and brought chaos to the mortal world. Who else would be willing to save you?" Chu Wen's voice was indifferent as he offered a cup filled with blazing blood in his jade-white fingers. "Only me." But Su Huiyuan couldn't let anyone know, because this was the greatest secret of his life: Every full moon, the ghosts within him grew wildly, like poisonous vines. Only Chu Wen's blood could save his life. Truly aloof, strongest in the world, beautiful immortal master and paragon, Senior Brother Chu Wen Pretends to be composed, most deranged in the three realms, ruthless Ghost Lord, mad Junior Brother Su Huiyuan (bottom) Theme: Live positively and never give up on the desire to live