Jiang Yinuo gets sabotaged during his graduation assessment at a cultivation university. When he opens his eyes, he's been transported to a deathmatch arena in a mechanical city with a steampunk aesthetic.
He has become one of the countless slaves in the arena, and has also picked up an Alpha toddler.
The little one is pitiful, skin and bones, but his eyes are exceptionally bright.
Jiang Yinuo's heart softens. He decides that as long as he has food, he won't let the child go hungry.
As he raises the child, Jiang Yinuo starts to feel that something is off.
Why is he the only one left completely unharmed in an arena competition with a death rate above ninety-eight percent?
Especially when his spiritual energy is sealed and he can't use his flying sword. He keeps winning without lifting a finger, so smoothly that even Jiang Yinuo finds it strange.
Then he sees the city lord's face, and understands.
It turns out the child he picked up is the city lord's own son, and he, a slave belonging to the city lord, has merely been receiving special treatment.
Jiang Yinuo: I don't need you to go easy on me! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
At first, no one in the gladiatorial arena takes the slender, stunning young man seriously.
Everyone thinks he's the city lord's new plaything, and that they just need to be careful not to hurt him.
Later, facing the breathtaking young man standing on an improved flying sword,
Everyone: We beg you, take it easy on us!!
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Qin Lin is the lord of the largest mechanical city on the continent, and also an exceedingly rare fourth-gender Enigma.
He has a secret that the public knows nothing about.
Every full moon night, he shrinks back into the body of a ten-year-old.
One time, someone picked up his shrunken self. That person was a slave.
Watching the slave go to great lengths to please and care for him, he decides, as a favor, to let the other party smoothly complete the arena competition and be promoted from slave to commoner.
If he hasn't grown tired of him by then, he might even bring him back to keep around for fun.
But as he watches Jiang Yinuo kick his way through the whole arena, win a medal, and keep taunting his opponents, Qin Lin falls silent.
#Help, my wife is a sword cultivator who refuses to follow the path of emotionlessness and can rip apart mechs with his bare hands. What do I do?#
Reading guide:
1. A psychotic Enigma top x a sharp-tongued, tough, and debonair Alpha bottom.
2. Set in a steampunk mechanical city, with added cultivation and greater and lesser worlds.
3. A hodgepodge, with the ingredients slowly simmering together later on.
4. The main premise remains unchanged, though some details will be revised.
Theme: 123