A Guide to Cultivation

Qiao Minzhen, who transmigrated into a book, knows what’s coming.

In three years, a top cultivation genius will join the sect and form a Nascent Soul at just two hundred years old.

Unfortunately, this heaven-blessed prodigy will eventually fall to demonic cultivation and be imprisoned beneath Five Zhang Mountain, never to escape. Their golden finger will instead fall into the hands of the future good-for-nothing male lead who rises to power.

Qiao Minzhen thinks that rather than let the golden finger fall into the male lead’s hands in the future,

she might as well “give” it to herself ahead of time.

At eleven, Fu Changning’s biggest worry is how to run away from home without running into bad people.

The grown-up Fu Changning?

All the bad people pray they never cross paths with her.

If you meet someone else, the worst that can happen is death.

Meet her, and she’ll squeeze every last bit of marrow from your bones before you die.

Oh, and before you die, she’ll borrow your bones to make herself a bowl of soup.

Reader’s Guide:

1. Traditional cultivation progression fantasy. A very long, slow-burn story featuring a gifted heroine who grows over time.

2. The first section is from the supporting female character’s perspective; the heroine appears in the second. Also, the original novel as seen through the supporting character’s eyes ≠ the truth.

3. There is a male lead, and a supporting male character with unrequited feelings. No romance in the early stages.

4. Cultivation levels: Qi Drawing into the Body → Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Golden Core → Nascent Soul → Spirit Transformation → Void Refinement → Dao Integration → Great Ascension → (Tribulation and Ascension)

5. The one-line synopsis comes from “Poem of the Five Sufferings.”

6. Discussion is welcome in the comments, but please try not to fight. Let’s all have fun sharing our favorite stories ^O^

[An extraordinarily long novel with an extremely slow pace. The core setting is traditional cultivation, but the author’s style varies: sometimes serious, sometimes passionate, lighthearted, silly, or ridiculously romantic.]

[The author likes writing detailed descriptions. Some parts of the setting are described in great, great detail, and the story occasionally includes ensemble casts.]

[The author has an extreme case of perfectionism and often revises and polishes the text, checking for omissions.]

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The next novel in my column is "Immortal Radiance", another traditional cultivation progression fantasy. Please add it to your reading list. Muah~

Synopsis:

When Ye Zhaowei was thirteen, an old blind fortune-teller at the end of the street read her fortune. He said she would face three tribulations in her life. If she survived them, all would be well and she would ascend to immortality by daylight.

If she failed, her body and Dao would be destroyed.

Her corpse would lie in the wilderness, devoured by wild dogs.

Ye Zhaowei was still a little beggar then. She threw a steamed bun at his face.

“Thanks for the good wishes!”

Only when the Ten Halls’ and Eight Directions’ Yama Kings hunted her down and her birth parents cursed her with their lives did she realize

that some people really are born with tribulations written into their fate.

It’s fine.

She had lived in the world for eighteen years, and even when she was on the verge of starving to death, she had never expected anyone to save her.

If there was no way out, she would carve one with her blade.

The one who orders the world is called Wen; the one who shines in every direction is called Ming.

She reaches every corner of the world and commands all realms. She is the Empress of Civilization.

A heroine who grows from a carefree little beggar to the ruler of all realms.

Theme: Work hard to overcome difficulties and explore the limits of life.