After Becoming the Sword Spirit of a Dragon-Raised Hero

My next story will be "I Hate My Senior Brother Like the Bright Moon": I hate how the moon hangs high in the sky, shining on everyone but me. If you’re interested, little darlings, please add it to your collection! The blurb is below.

*

Sang Du transmigrates to the cultivation world, where he is neither a vicious villain nor a domineering male lead.

He becomes the male lead’s bonded sword spirit, which at least puts him in the same orbit as the male lead.

Being a sword spirit isn’t so bad, but...

The male lead lifts him up without expression. “Evil spirit?”

He raises a hand, ready to scatter Sang Du’s soul.

In a desperate moment, Sang Du racks his brains. “Believe me! I really am your bonded sword’s spirit!”

“Everyone says a sword cultivator’s wife is his sword, and a sword spirit is part of the sword. So how can you kill your own wife?!”

The male lead: “...”

The little sword spirit’s eyes turn red. After a torrent of nonsense, nearly swearing an oath to prove his loyalty to the heavens, he finally manages to soothe the male lead’s suspicions.

*

The cultivation world is rife with cutthroat competition. Every cultivator is a workaholic, and Sang Du’s master is the most fanatical of them all.

Sang Du just wants to lie flat. I’m a sword spirit. What does it matter to me if everyone works themselves to death? When my master ascends, I’ll rise along with him!

But a certain male lead surnamed Li refuses to let him off the hook and insists on making him work hard too.

Sang Du: The Great Demon King is cold and heartless! I refuse to join the rat race!

As a modern young man, Sang Du is an expert at all sorts of slacking-off techniques.

Li Jizhen watches everything with a deep, unreadable gaze.

*

One day, Li Jizhen brings him an ancient book, saying it can save sword spirits time in their cultivation.

Sang Du takes one look: “When spiritual energy blends, it’s especially effective at improving a bonded sword.”

Sounds great. Let’s give it a try.

Several dozen days later, Sang Du covers his swollen lips and rubs his aching waist, complaining through tears.

“Isn’t this a dual-cultivation technique? Great Demon King, you... you... that was too much!”

Li Jizhen says calmly, “You once said that a sword is a sword cultivator’s wife, and the same goes for a sword spirit. What’s wrong with doing this to my own wife?”

Sang Du, who has lifted a rock only to drop it on his own foot: ???

*

Reader’s Guide:

1. A sword spirit who just wants to laze around and lie flat x a fatherly, domineering male lead with extraordinary talent and an even greater talent for working himself to the bone.

2. Cultivation levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul. (But the story only reaches Golden Core, not Nascent Soul. This is not a cultivation-leveling story.)

3. Paragraph comments are open. Little darlings, feel free to leave your thoughts. (Anti-piracy threshold: 70%; bonus chapters: 100%.)

4. A sweet cultivation-world romance, mutual feelings, both characters’ first and only, and the couple is forever.

*

"I Hate My Senior Brother Like the Bright Moon"

Wen Yan has been jealous of his senior brother, Shen Yuxi, since childhood.

His senior brother is handsome, steady, reserved, and the very picture of a first-rate candidate for cultivation.

As his cultivation grows stronger, his senior brother naturally becomes the sect’s chief disciple, admired by everyone in the sect.

“Greetings, Senior Brother!”

“Senior Brother, could you give me some pointers on my swordsmanship today?”

“Senior Brother, there’s something I don’t understand about this technique...”

Wen Yan hears words like these every day, and the jealousy in his heart grows thorn by thorn into a wall of brambles.

He wishes he could take his senior brother’s place.

At the same time, a secret thought quietly takes root in his heart.

You think you can call him Senior Brother?

A bunch of good-for-nothings, and you have the nerve?!

*

Shen Yuxi has a fellow disciple who is only a little younger than he is.

As the senior brother, he naturally takes good care of this only junior brother.

His junior brother has been attached to him since childhood.

Whenever Shen Yuxi wears a certain color, his junior brother wears the same color too.

Shen Yuxi loves wearing green robes, so his junior brother follows his example and wears green every day.

His junior brother is slender, and the green robes wrapped around him make him look like a tender young bamboo shoot, prompting Shen Yuxi to take extra care of him.

But after Shen Yuxi becomes the chief disciple, his junior brother suddenly stops clinging to him.

Shen Yuxi doesn’t say anything, but he feels a little disappointed inside.

*

Reader’s Guide:

1. A gloomy, insecure, copycat junior brother x a gentle, reserved, hypocritical senior brother.

2. Part of the Bright Moon series: I hate how the moon hangs high in the sky, shining on everyone but me.

*

My completed works: "Everyday Survival in the Cultivation World", "Marrying My Childhood Friend, the Little Sword Cultivator", "The Little Lotus Is Forbidden from Lazing Around in Cultivation", and "A Record of Working in the Cultivation World".

Theme: Even after becoming a non-human creature in another world, you still have to work hard