Locust Shade Wall [Infinite Flow]

Here's another serial, the xianxia novel As the Green Mountains Are. The blurb is at the end. Feel free to add it to your collection and read it!

This is an ancient-style infinite-flow story. All the characters are from ancient times.

This novel will switch to a paid model on Tuesday, August 17. The paid chapters will be Chapters 21 to 29, so please don't buy them again if you've already read them. I'll post three chapters, totaling ten thousand words, when it goes paid tomorrow. Thank you for all your support so far, and I hope you'll continue to support me!

The first time General Feng Shu saw Mu Xuanyun, he thought the young Assistant Director of the Directorate of Celestial Observations was absolutely beautiful, though always sickly.

When Mu Xuanyun asked if he believed in ghosts and gods, Feng Shu answered offhandedly, "If ghosts and gods existed, the vengeful spirits of my enemies would have come for me long ago. Believe that? Not a chance."

Then he encountered a ghost that very night.

He was drawn into an illusion, where demons ran rampant and monsters were everywhere.

One wrong step, and he would be stuck in the illusion forever, a ghostly demon of a general.

There, he saw Mu Xuanyun, just as lost as he was, yet still gentle and composed.

Since there was no way out, they could only follow the rules and start solving the mysteries.

Night One: Under a willow tree, a hanged ghost holding a red sash smiles at you. Who betrayed her, and how can she leave?

Night Two: After good and evil switch places, the smiling god raises a butcher's knife. You flee from hideous monsters, never knowing that they are the true path to survival.

Night Three: ...

Where songs and revelry suddenly rise in the night, a hundred ghosts weep and laugh in red robes.

After they had passed through several illusions, Feng Shu once asked Mu Xiqiao, "Assistant Director Mu, you're skilled at divination. Have you ever read your own romantic fortune?"

Mu Xuanyun replied, "I have. I'll spend my life hand in hand with the one I love, growing old together."

Feng Shu asked, "Then have you ever read mine?"

Mu Xuanyun answered, "General Feng and the one he loves will enjoy a happy marriage for a hundred years, never to part."

Hearing this, the noble and carefree young General Feng Shu decided to confess to the slender, long-legged, beautiful, sickly Assistant Director Mu.

But Mu Xuanyun said, "My sect forbids marriage."

Feng Shu replied, "My mistake. Your hair is so long, I thought you weren't a monk."

Mu Xuanyun said, "What? General, you must be joking. I'm not a monk to begin with."

After overcoming one obstacle after another, Feng Shu asked Mu Xuanyun again, "Where are the one you love and the one I love?"

Mu Xuanyun lowered his eyes and twirled a peach blossom between his fingers, smiling. "Right here before us. As it happens, we love each other, and we're made for each other."

* Carefree, unruly general seme x gentle, sickly occultist uke

* The challenge settings draw on Tang dynasty legends and ancient supernatural tales. The story won't be too scary overall, and leans toward the strange and fantastical.

* The first challenge is told from the seme's perspective. Since he is a newcomer, it's easier to put yourself in his shoes. Most of the later challenges are told from the uke's perspective. The point of view serves the story, so please take note if that doesn't suit you.

* Ancient-style infinite flow. Everyone is from ancient times, and the story takes place in ancient dynasties. No modern people, no System, no transmigration: just a group of unlucky people from ancient times caught up in the game.

Coming soon: As the Green Mountains Are (now serializing)

Immortal Lord Xiyun is admired by all three realms. He is beautiful, cold, and powerful. Apart from the faction of the Heavenly Emperor, who fears his power might eclipse their own, everyone loves him.

People pursue him one after another, but Xiyun remains as steady as an iceberg. Just as everyone assumes he'll be alone for the rest of his life, the Demon Lord Canghan descends from the sky and spirits him away.

In the ghost city, fierce spirits howl and blood fills the air. Yet Canghan seems to be standing amid peach blossoms, fingers interlaced with Xiyun's, as he smiles and says:

"Three hundred years ago, I met you, Immortal Lord, and we hit it off at once. We traveled together, only to become enemies and cross swords. I've spent three hundred years cultivating in seclusion, seeing nothing of the world. Has your heart finally found peace?"

Xiyun silently meets his gaze. Prophecies of his fate surge through his mind once more, followed by countless nightmares.

"I will never speak of love with the Demon Lord in this life."

Then heaven and earth are overturned, and disaster engulfs the three realms. Xiyun breaks his vow, and Canghan gets his wish. Their fates are foretold to end in separation, but even if their souls are scattered, they insist on going together and returning together.

Later, when all is peaceful and the two have retired from the world, someone asks Canghan how he melted ice into spring water and made snow vanish so flowers could bloom. Canghan only smiles. "Be shameless enough, be clever enough, and follow your heart. Your beloved also has to be softhearted enough."

"I see how charming the green mountains are, and imagine they must see me the same way."

Male-male romance, strictly one-on-one

A carefree flirt in public, a schemer in private, a troublemaking, tea-spilling Demon Lord seme x a cool and reserved Immortal Lord uke, cold on the outside but kind and devoted within, with the world in his heart (Canghan x Xiyun)

Content warnings: angst, misunderstandings, melodrama, and twists. If these don't suit you, please consider whether to continue reading.

Theme: Treat others with kindness, and face difficulties with a smile.