Ling Jiangyue was bored, so he read an erotic story. Then he transmigrated into the body of a sickly beauty whose family had been wiped out and whose looks were coveted. At a martial arts tournament, the Demon Sect leader Qi Chi abducts and humiliates him. He gives himself over to depravity, losing himself in sensual pleasures every night, while countless peerless masters come to share his bed.
Faced with this crisis, Ling Jiangyue is thrilled: A martial arts tournament! Peerless masters!
His swordsmanship is unmatched, and he is wild and arrogant. By eighteen, he has united the martial world and is acknowledged as the greatest under heaven. His only regret is how lonely it is to be invincible.
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Following the plot, Ling Jiangyue squeezes through the crowd to reach the sect leader Qi Chi. He clutches his chest and coughs blood, looking too delicate to bear it, and knocks off Qi Chi's hat, revealing his face.
After Qi Chi abducts him, Ling Jiangyue raises his sword while coughing blood. "If you want to humiliate me, beat me first!"
Qi Chi looks at the frail beauty, who seems about to faint. "...I surrender."
*
Ling Jiangyue doesn't get to fight, but word that the Demon Sect has taken him spreads anyway.
The righteous sect's young master comes to rescue the beauty. Ling Jiangyue says, "Fight me. If you win, I'll go back with you to see your master."
The young master happily agrees. Ling Jiangyue coughs until tears glisten in his eyes, then knocks the young master flying with one move. Qi Chi brings him hot tea at just the right moment.
The alluring, morally ambiguous palace master comes to see him. Ling Jiangyue says, "If you can make me take one step back, we'll find an inn and cultivate together right away."
The palace master has barely struck once before Ling Jiangyue sends him flying several yards. His face is flushed with fever, and Qi Chi hurries to brew him medicine.
*
Ling Jiangyue feels that a martial artist's life is lonely as snow. He complains helplessly to Qi Chi: "What good is all this charm? Why won't you fight me?"
"You're not well," Qi Chi says gently. "And I don't have a saber. Our attempt to unite the martial world failed, and the former sect leader left us behind in the Central Plains."
Ling Jiangyue immediately perks up. "To be honest, I'm a sect leader too, and I succeeded."
*
After the two greatest sword and saber masters of the age fight a world-shaking duel, Ling Jiangyue sees the box of collectibles Qi Chi brings out, the very things that made the original owner give himself over to depravity. He deeply regrets reading an erotic story.
A refined, courteous, hypocritical, secretly calculating top X the greatest under heaven, an oblivious, ambitious bottom
[Blurb subject to change. This is roughly the vibe.]
Theme: Surpass yourself and reach new heights.