The Junior Sister’s Cultivation Journal

Pre-release: Chronicles of Cultivation at Xuanyu Sect. Blurb at the end. Blurb: After her perfectly ordinary life came to an end, Song Chi was perfectly ordinarily reborn in another world. Her family was ordinary too. Looking back four generations, her great-grandfather had the best spiritual roots, and even he only reached Foundation Establishment. The family’s little incense-and-powder shop had been passed down thanks to that capable great-grandfather winning the favor of a powerful patron. The family could afford to eat and live comfortably, but in the cultivation world, they were no more than a drop in the ocean: about as ordinary as they came. Her spiritual-root aptitude was decent by comparison (at least among the four generations of her family). According to her family, with her aptitude, Foundation Establishment was practically guaranteed. With luck, she might even become an inner disciple of a sect and perhaps brush against the threshold of the Golden Core stage in this lifetime. It was worth taking a chance. So, to take that chance, Song Chi traveled a long way to Qingjian Sect to seek a master. Her three spiritual roots, Metal, Water, and Wood, were all an excessively average 77, making her best suited to become a sound cultivator. Qingjian Sect was famous for that path. And her gamble paid off. With her sweet, well-behaved look and pretty, delicate features, she managed to get the examiner at the Immortal-Testing Platform to go easy on her and admit her as an inner disciple! She’d bet big, and she’d won! Song Chi beamed with delight. From here on, she was serious. She would work hard at cultivation, and her goal wasn’t unrealistic either: Golden Core. Becoming a Golden Core cultivator was her lifelong ambition. She devoted herself to studying at the academy and cultivating. She didn’t care about anything else. The annoying thing was that the young man from the prestigious neighboring family, who had come to escape the summer heat the year before she joined the sect, followed her everywhere. When she went to the academy, he came too, despite being a disciple of a Venerable, and shamelessly sat beside her. Every day, he picked on her with that sneering face that seemed to say, “I’ll be the second male lead forever, and the heroine will never love me.” He kept calling her Qiqi for no reason. Yes, yes, your Metal, Water, and Wood roots are all Heavenly Spiritual Roots. You’re amazing, a genius, the greatest person in the world. Song Chi ignored him. Then there was the young man with red lips and pearly teeth, whose face radiated the kind of bitter hatred usually reserved for a male lead. He’d walked ahead of her before she entered the sect, and she’d privately decided he was the male lead. He showed up at the academy too, sitting behind her and staring at her back with eyes cold enough to freeze her solid. But that was fine. He was a textbook ice-cold loner, and no one could stop him from radiating a little chill. Although the two of them attracted plenty of attention and caused her a little trouble, that was all right too. Her steadfast cultivation plans kept moving forward without a hitch. Then one day, the heroine arrived at the academy. Song Chi’s brain, crammed with countless novels, finally awakened its memories. So she really had transmigrated into a book. She couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. She was probably some insignificant fourth- or fifth-ranking female character, a lovesick extra, but that didn’t stop her from grinning from ear to ear. Her chance had come. This must be a transmigrator’s perk! As long as the book was accurate, she would be able to find a spirit medicine in the upcoming secret realm that could cleanse her spiritual roots. With root scores below 80 and no Immortal Root, she had no hope of reaching Golden Core in this lifetime. But the secret medicine mentioned in the book could certainly cleanse her roots and improve her aptitude. Then she could set her sights not only on Golden Core, but even on Nascent Soul. As for the heroine’s cultivation life, full of messy entanglements with the male lead and the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh male leads, she’d assumed she would just be watching from the sidelines. Only later did she discover that she was the most exciting part of this bloody love-triangle battlefield! Pre-release: Chronicles of Cultivation at Xuanyu Sect Just a few days after joining the sect, Song Xi found herself carrying a script for catching her fiance cheating. Her fiance, to whom she’d been betrothed as a child and whom she’d barely met, would fall in love with the heroine at first sight after entering the sect. He would arrange to meet her one evening beside Fragrant Flower Creek, one of the sect’s scenic landmarks. Of course, it was the original owner who was supposed to catch them. She had feelings for her fiance. That’s right, Song Xi had transmigrated into a book. She’d been reborn into this world as a baby, and she’d met the young fiance a few times. He didn’t seem like the type to fool around. But if the book said so, then the boy would probably fall for the love of his life as soon as he joined the sect. Poor guy. He was the second male lead, and the heroine would never return his affection. The original owner was naturally the third female lead. Song Xi wasn’t going to catch him cheating to win back her philandering fiance’s love. The book said that while hiding among the flowers to catch him, the original owner would stumble upon a life-changing opportunity. That opportunity would make her a genius artifact refiner! Her aptitude was mediocre. Without those opportunities, Golden Core would be the end of the road for her cultivation in this lifetime. There was no way she’d pass up the chance right in front of her. So that evening, Song Xi hid early among the immortal thorns beside Fragrant Flower Creek. She waited until night was nearly upon them, digging up almost the whole area without finding any treasure. Just as the book said, her philandering fiance arranged to meet the heroine and strolled along the path beside the creek. By chance, they stopped right in front of her. A little golden cauldron quietly broke through the earth behind them. Seeing that the two of them had heard something and were about to turn around, Song Xi sprang out like a tiger pouncing on a lamb. As her spiritual energy drew the little cauldron into her storage ring, she punched with all her might. “Xie Xuecheng, meeting someone behind my back? We’re through, once and for all!” After dropping that line, Song Xi strode away. Only later did she learn she’d hit the wrong person. Xie Xuecheng hadn’t gone that day. It had been the male lead and his cousin instead... Theme: Even when the mission you bear is difficult, you should do your best to fulfill it.