We Buddhist Cultivators Win People Over with Virtue

I'm sorry for coming back so late. This book has done better than any of my other books since I joined Jinjiang, but unfortunately, I didn't prepare properly or plan out the story. I'd already been struggling partway through, and then writing my thesis, my graduation internship, and a whole series of other things piled up. I backed down and stopped updating for so long without even saying a word.

I'm truly sorry, everyone, for giving you such a poor reading experience. I've decided to make this book free to read, but starting today, I'll update it every other day until it's finished. I hope that can count as an apology. Thank you, everyone.

After transmigrating into a cultivation novel about a chosen one, Ci Jing is destined to become the original male protagonist's experience points. She had planned to join the Sword Sect, study swordsmanship properly, and do her best to stand toe-to-toe with the male lead! Who knew that along the way, a monk would lure her into Buddhist cultivation instead?

No matter. Who says Buddhist cultivators can't beat chosen ones? Doesn't Buddhism have its own wrathful guardians?

After becoming his disciple, Ci Jing asked eagerly, "Master, how do Buddhist cultivators train?"

The monk replied, "Recite scriptures!"

Ci Jing asked, "What else?"

The monk replied, "...Sit in meditation and recite scriptures!"

Unwilling to give up, Ci Jing asked, "Isn't there anything with a little more firepower?"

The monk replied, "We Buddhist cultivators win people over with virtue!"

Years later, a female Buddhist cultivator appeared in the cultivation world, capable of driving back demons and monsters with nothing but Buddhist scriptures and a wooden fish. They said she was kindhearted and compassionate, and loved to preach before battle.

One Demon Venerable scoffed at the rumors and deliberately went to make her eat her words.

Everyone rushed over to watch the spectacle, eager to see what a miserable fate awaited the female Buddhist cultivator.

Instead, they saw Ci Jing holding a wooden fish in one hand and a scripture in the other. She lowered her head and looked at the villainous Demon Venerable with benevolent kindness. "We Buddhist cultivators have always won people over with virtue. Benefactor, can you see the moral radiance filling the skies?"

The original story's great villain, trampled by her until he couldn't even lift his head: "...Shameless! You Buddhist cultivators are shameless!"

P.S. The male lead is a monk, but he isn't the master. Read with caution if that bothers you!

There's not much romance (I can't write it, I really can't, sob).

This is a story I'm writing for myself, so please don't overthink it. Mwah~

Here's a preview of an upcoming story:

Ning Yanzhi is the most outstanding disciple in the Sword Sect's history, and unquestionably the senior sister among the sect's young disciples.

She practices swordsmanship more diligently than she eats, and hits people more often than she dresses up. As a model sword cultivator, Ning Yanzhi had long since resigned herself to spending her life with her bonded sword.

But when troublesome admirers come calling, no one can stop them. In the space of a single night, every talented person in the cultivation world, whether she'd met them or not, came knocking.

The aloof and proud Immortal Venerable humbled himself to propose marriage;

The sinister and ruthless Demon Venerable boldly declared he would marry her;

The arrogant and willful prince of the demon race arrived at her sect with a little child who looked exactly like her, demanding that she take responsibility;

Even her old nemesis had started acting strangely...

Bound to a livestream System, the suitors travel between small worlds with the goal of winning over each world's protagonist and seizing their fortune. They have seen countless battles and never suffered a defeat, giving the viewers in their livestreams plenty of chances to watch heaven's favored children fall from grace.

Until they met Ning Yanzhi.

Faced with the suitors' endless schemes, Ning Yanzhi, who could see their livestream comments, slowly drew her sword. "Everyone, would you like to learn about sword cultivators who follow the heartless path?"

Theme: In your own world, everyone is the protagonist