Yan Xi transmigrated into a book, becoming the most miserable good-for-nothing true heiress in a female-led revenge xianxia novel.
In the story, she was taken to the mortal world at birth and endured twenty years of hardship. After reuniting with her family, her relatives disliked her, the servants bullied her, and everyone attacked her. In the end, an admirer of the fake heiress broke all four of her limbs and threw her into a pill furnace, where she died as a living sacrifice.
Everyone praised Yan Lu, daughter of the Jiangqu Yan family, for her frost-white wrists and willow-like grace. She was the cultivation world's number one beauty, a crescent moon hanging high in the heavens. When the truth about the Yan family's true and false daughters came out, everyone looked down on and scorned the girl from the mortal world. How could mud compare to the moon in the sky?
Yan Xi didn't want to die, let alone die so miserably. She was going to ascend to the Great Dao, and she wanted every opportunity and every magical treasure!
Gradually, people began to realize something was wrong.
Everyone knew the Yan family's true heiress had no spiritual root and couldn't pursue the Great Dao. No one expected her to pull a greatsword from behind her and wield it with incredible skill, cutting down everyone who bullied or humiliated her.
At the disciples' tournament, she sent an elder's personal disciple flying off the trial platform with a single sword strike, despite having no spiritual energy at all.
In a secret realm, she faced tens of thousands of demons alone. Not only did the demons vanish into dust, she also became the realm's master.
When threatened with the lives of her family, she tore out her sinews and broke her bones, forged her body in the path of righteousness, and cut through the tribulation lightning. She tempered the first Supreme Body in ten thousand years and established a new path of cultivation.
Later, she wielded her greatsword and carved a path through every obstacle. She became a famous lone wolf, a monster cultivators avoided at all costs, and a taboo everyone feared.
When Venerable Shen Yuan, the number one in the cultivation world, begged her desperately to give him a title, people looked up and saw Yan Xi's face clearly for the first time. They were stunned.
All they could say was: "Like willow branches brushed by a sudden breeze, she is unlike anyone else in the world."
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As for Yan Lu, the false moon eventually became mud.
2021/6/22
[Reading Guide]
1. Female-led story, power progression, plot-driven. The heroine is unhinged, and there is lots of headcanon.
2. Cultivation levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Out-of-Body, Dividing Spirit, Void Insight, Great Ascension, Tribulation Transcendence.
Theme: Relying on yourself is better than relying on heaven or earth.