My Dao Companion Finally Ascended

My Dao Companion, Venerable Ling He, is powerful, handsome, and noble. He commands half the cultivation world. Even though we've been Dao companions for five hundred years, he still tops the cultivation world's annual list of most-wanted Dao companions...

Hah, everyone is fooled by his appearance, just like I was back when I was naive!

Ling He is devoted to cultivation, cold-hearted, and won't even let me touch my beloved artifact-crafting. He forces me to cultivate day and night... Yet he refuses to engage in dual cultivation of any kind, for any reason!

Ha, ha! We've been Dao companions for five hundred years, and I have never set foot outside Canglan Mountain's Valley of Ten Thousand Immortals. I haven't even touched one of Ling He's fingers!

Luckily, he's finally broken through his bottleneck, survived his tribulation, and ascended!

My crafting furnace, my rare treasures, my artifact-crafting manuals, the magical artifacts I just finished shaping... At last, I can escape the tyrannical, unreasonable, wicked Ling He and come back to you... Huh?!

Ling He, didn't you ascend?!

Fall, fall... What's this about a tiger in your heart falling into the demonic path? Let go, I want to go to the crafting room! I haven't been there in five hundred years. I don't want to dual...

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A silly, sweet short story. Serialized, not paid.