I Study the Mystical Arts in the Interstellar Era

[My new story, How Can an 80-Year-Old Granny Not Have Princess Syndrome?, is now open for follows and bookmarks!]

Blurb:

Ran Qiao, a former mystic arts master, transmigrates to the interstellar era and becomes a military academy student.

From then on, the style of the academy's various competitions gradually goes off the rails.

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During a one-on-one elimination match,

her opponent pulls out a mecha, ready to start a mecha battle.

But Ran Qiao pulls out a compass and a stack of talismans.

Ran Qiao: Classmate, I can see from the darkness between your brows that you're going to lose this round! Since you're about to lose, I'll give you a few options. Do you prefer a Thunder-Attracting Talisman, a Fire Talisman, or a Water Talisman? A Hundred Ghosts Talisman works, too.

The opponent, leaping around after getting struck by the Thunder-Attracting Talisman, breaks down: ??? Is this scientific? Is this really a scientific world?!

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During a wilderness scavenger hunt for point cards,

all the other students form teams of five and launch a thorough search.

Ran Qiao pulls out her compass again, then runs straight to each hidden point card, accurately finding them all and sweeping up every card on the wilderness map. Then she grabs a megaphone and shouts, "If you want point cards, bring food to the center of the woods to trade, "

"Note: I won't trade for food that tastes bad, "

The other competitors: ??? We're all people, so why does someone get to cheat with a completely different kind of hack? We're reporting her!

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Ran Qiao keeps wanting to drop out and focus on reviving her sect and promoting the culture of mystic arts. But she never manages to leave. Instead, she somehow makes it all the way to graduation and becomes a special civilian member of the military.

Later, her sect is revived, and the culture of mystic arts is successfully promoted. The only difference is that on the battlefield, there's now a mecha soldier with a compass in one hand and talismans in the other...

Blurb for the new story, How Can an 80-Year-Old Granny Not Have Princess Syndrome?:

Tan Yuxiang has lived an ordinary life. Then, at the very end, when she's eighty, she binds herself to a cash-back System.

System: As long as the Host tips a streamer with a beauty score of at least 95, she'll receive a huge cash-back reward, between ten and ten thousand times what she spends.

Tan Yuxiang has just watched a video of a "little princess" and her lavish birthday party, feeling a little envious and regretful.

Oh wow.

Now that I'm rich, why shouldn't I be a little princess too?!

Tan Yuxiang immediately changes her screen name to Her Highness the Eighty-Year-Old Princess, starts streaming, and begins challenging other streamers to PK battles.

Tan Yuxiang: Call me Her Highness the Princess, and I'll send you a Carnival gift.

At first, the streamers laugh: Grandma, you're already this old. Stop trying to be a streamer and go home to bed.

Later, the streamers say:

My goodness! It's Her Highness the Princess! Your Highness, how can anyone in the world be as beautiful, elegant, and noble as you? You make my heart flutter!

Her Highness the Princess? No, I don't believe it. How could a child who isn't even eighteen be a princess!

Where's Her Highness the Princess? I don't see her. All I can see is the celestial maiden Chang'e!

How can a princess go without gorgeous gowns?

Tan Yuxiang waves her hand grandly and takes her old friends into the city.

Each of them gets two handsome men to support her, and they head into town to shop till they drop.

Her old friend gasps: Girl, how did you get rich?

Tan Yuxiang snorts: Call me Her Highness the Princess!

The old friends look at their beautiful, ornate European medieval-style court gowns, then at the handsome men attentively standing by their sides. They solemnly perform the hand-kissing gesture to Tan Yuxiang: Your Highness the Princess

Tan Yuxiang: At ease

Tan Ganying hasn't seen his mother in a year and finally can't resist going home to visit her.

But before he even reaches home, he sees a group of women, each with a different kind of charm, gathered in front of a magnificent castle around an elderly woman in a glittering court gown.

The woman's face looks very familiar.

Tan Ganying: Mom???

But his mother only gives him a fleeting glance before saying just as lightly, "How dare you! Call me Her Highness the Princess!"

Tan Ganying: Huh???

Later, Tan Yuxiang looks at her ever-growing assets, her increasingly youthful reflection in the mirror, and the growing number of young beauties by her side, and can't help sighing:

As expected, money and power are the best tonics for women.

Truly nourishing!

Theme: As times change, some things are gradually forgotten. But we hope that beautiful things can be preserved forever, and that someone will remember them.