The Villagers Decide to Follow a Cultivation Storyline

This novel is also known as Experiencing an RPG in a Xianxia World.

Completed draft: 6 chapters

Ning Li transmigrates.

As if transmigrating out of nowhere weren't enough, she wakes up as Ning Erdan, the precious daughter of the utterly unremarkable butcher at the east end of the village...

And that's not all. Every villager has a game-like username floating above their head. She can't shake the feeling that she's been dropped into a massive, full-dive cultivation game.

Why a cultivation game?

Ning Li looks up at her main quest: Go to Mount Taixuan and become a disciple of the Taixuan Sword Sect.

Help! She's just the daughter of a down-and-out butcher, basically an extra village NPC, right?!

Fine. She'll quietly treat this place like a simulation game and focus on staying alive.

Holding an item crucial to the plot, Ning Li sets off for Mount Taixuan.

As long as she cultivates hard and becomes the most powerful expert around, she'll surely have a chance to get home!

But as the story gradually unfolds,

only at the very end does she learn that the condition for beating this lousy game has nothing to do with ascending to immortality.

[Victory Conditions: Escape the replacement romance trope, earn the Grandmaster's approval, win the admiration of the senior brother, win the admiration of the junior brother, win the admiration of a prince of the demon race, win the admiration of someone from the Fanyin Temple...]

Ning Li: ???

What kind of nonsense is this? Wasn't I supposed to ascend?!

What the hell do I care about those brothers?!

Wait, why does everyone look different when she says she wants to find a cultivation partner?

Reader's guide:

① This novel is also known as Experiencing an RPG in a Xianxia World.

② The protagonist is a blank slate. It's an otome story, with a replacement romance trope and a love rivalry. My own take on cultivation!

③ A hot-blooded coming-of-age story with a very, very slow burn. Monster-fighting and leveling up, with romance as a side element and personal growth as the focus.

Theme: Grow stronger through challenging dungeons.