Why Am I Still the Best in the World?

[A new fantasy novel, I Really Didn't Mean to Destroy the World, is now available. Please add it to your reading list!] As a cultivator in the Age of Dharma Decline, Ren Pingsheng was hailed as the last hope. People hoped she would ascend to immortality and forge a path to the heavens. Then Ren Pingsheng was struck dead while undergoing her tribulation to ascend. She thought failing her tribulation would make her soul scatter, but a bolt of heavenly lightning sent her a thousand years into the future. What she didn't expect was that, in this world a thousand years later, she had become a national idol. The introductory guide to cultivation, The Essentials of Qi Refining, owned by every cultivator, was something she'd casually written a thousand years ago. The secret treasure passed down for generations among formation cultivators, The Treasure Compendium of Formations, was something she'd drawn to pass the time. The perilous secret realm famous throughout the cultivation world had once been her cave dwelling. The vicious black dragon on the immortal mountains overseas had once been her pet. After the Age of Dharma Decline, the civilization of cultivation suffered a devastating blow. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth dried up, and only began to recover hundreds of years later. A journal left behind by Ren Pingsheng became the foundation for the revival of the cultivation era on the continent. She was undeniably the founding ancestor of the cultivation world. Worshipped like a god, she was celebrated throughout the cultivation world for a thousand years. Yet Ren Pingsheng looked at the body she had transmigrated into a thousand years later: its immortal core stolen, its Violet Palace shattered, its cultivation destroyed, and its owner a sickly person who seemed ready to drop dead at any moment. A nightmare from the start. After thinking it over, she decided that all she had to do was cultivate all over again. Since that was the case, she would set herself a small goal first: For example... reclaiming the title of number one under heaven. With the Master of Heaven's Way gone for a thousand years and no Realm Lord to protect it, the Great Wilderness remained the weakest of the Three Thousand Worlds, at the mercy of all. The immortals of the Upper Realm siphoned the Great Wilderness's spiritual energy, seized its people's bodies for amusement, regarded all its beings as ants, and did as they pleased. The cultivators of the Great Wilderness could only wait desperately for the return of the Heavenly Way and the reappearance of their Realm Lord, so they would no longer be at others' mercy. Until that day... The Master of Heaven's Way appeared, black hair cascading like a waterfall, carrying wind and snow, wielding a brush that moved heaven and earth. Only then did the haughty immortals of the Upper Realm realize in horror: The one person who had made them afraid a thousand years ago... She had returned. [Reading Guide: Please be sure to read] 1. The heroine is adored by everyone and extremely overpowered. This is a romance novel with a couple. The male lead is the Heavenly Way (a world spirit), and the heroine is the Master of Heaven's Way (the Realm Lord). The male lead really does call her "Master." 2. An overpowered expert falls into a beginner's village, then returns to the pinnacle of the world. 3. In the early part, the heroine levels up; later, she fights back against a higher-dimensional invasion. 4. My own take on cultivation, with lots of original worldbuilding. 5. I really can't write blurbs. The story is better than the blurb, trust me. [Stages of cultivation: Young Heart - Tides on the Horizon - Worshipping the Stars and Moon - Dreaming of Immortal Travels - Returning to the Dao] Young Heart: Qi Refining, Foundation Building Tides on the Horizon: Golden Core, Nascent Soul Worshipping the Stars and Moon: Deification Dreaming of Immortal Travels: Lesser Vehicle, Greater Vehicle Returning to the Dao: Tribulation Transcendence ---A preview of my upcoming novel, I Really Didn't Mean to Destroy the World, launching at the end of December. Please add it to your reading list!--- The Fourteen Provinces have a world-ending fiend who slaughters her relatives, drives her elder brother to his death, wipes out entire households, runs rampant across the land, and commits every imaginable evil. She is so insane that she wants to devour every living being in the world. Everyone wants her dead. Yet for a full century, the cultivators of the Fourteen Provinces have never once won a confrontation with the world-ending fiend. They have suffered one defeat after another. At the critical moment, a divine miracle appears, summoning the worthy people of the Fourteen Provinces to travel back in time a hundred years and eliminate the still-weak world-ending fiend, restoring peace to the land. A host of heaven's favored answer the call, travel back in time, and prepare for battle, desperate to find the young world-ending fiend and kill her once and for all. They bear a sacred mission, and nothing can stand in their way. When Zhuoguang awakes from a dream, she has become the target of a worldwide manhunt. Her senior brother plots against her in secret, her senior sister hates her to the bone, old friends turn against her, and countless strangers want her dead. They all say that in a hundred years, she will destroy the world and become the dreaded world-ending fiend. Zhuoguang can only run for her life. No one expects that each time she is hunted, her cultivation grows a little stronger. Each time she is driven to the brink, she becomes a little stronger. Until at last she grows so powerful that no one can hope to match her. The heaven's favored hunters suddenly realize that the person they've used every scheme, trick, and assassination to hunt down is being forced and pushed by them toward the pinnacle of the world, without needing to wait a hundred years. They themselves have returned her to the altar, making her once again the shadow in their hearts and the dark cloud over their heads. That day, they watch Zhuoguang, whose cultivation can now rival that of the future world-ending fiend, storm toward them, murderous aura blazing. Just as they think all is lost and the world will never know peace again, Zhuoguang finally snaps and says: "Who said I want to destroy the world?!" I've struggled with myself for so long, I'd rather be myself. [Reading Guide] 1. Not traditional cultivation fiction. It leans toward Eastern fantasy, and the entire worldbuilding is original. 2. No selfcest or female-female romance in this story. 3. Stages of cultivation: Nine Mountains at Dawn; Thirteen Heavens Under the Moon; Four Watches of Midnight; Entering the World; Sage Theme: There is no end to learning