My Dao Companion Is Hideous

[Main story complete. Bonus chapters updating now...] You Linxiang was the illegitimate daughter of the immortal You family, kept in the stable. Born of the family patriarch and a lowly maid after he was tricked, she was an ugly girl with red blotches all over her face and a fleshy growth on her back. Her own father treated her like an animal and forced her to marry Qi Nansheng, a cripple from the fallen Qi family whose meridians had been destroyed. The goal, of course, was to humiliate his enemy's son. He wanted the ugly girl to bear the Qi family an ugly bastard, so everyone could laugh at them forever. On their wedding night, the two of them had been drugged, but rather than submit to the fate others had forced on them and climb into bed together, they bit back their blood and fled, crossing seven mountains. One was blind, the other a hunchback, and they helped each other along. They saw each other at their most despicable and ugly, and supported one another through every hardship. They helped each other pursue the people they loved, and even killed for each other. After scraping and clawing their way up from being two helpless nobodies at everyone's mercy to the top academy of the Immortal Alliance, admired by countless prodigies, they finally remembered that they were still bound by a marriage pact. You Linxiang: Let's dissolve the marriage contract. It puts limits on my flirting, and I still want to find myself a good husband. Qi Nansheng: It's been so long... You still haven't fallen in love with me? You are my ribs and spine, the one I rely on like a limb. You guided me when I was at my most wretched and ugly. My love and desire exist only for you. Synopsis written on 2021.4.3 and already screenshotted. Reader's guide: The heroine will become a great beauty later on. The heroine has a relatively gentle personality. They support and redeem each other. Cultivation in the story is divided among five spiritual roots associated with metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. The grades are Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow, each with upper, middle, and lower ranks and nine stages in each rank. Spirit stones are classified using the same grades. Theme: Persevere through adversity. Never yield or give up.