I Became Stronger After Falling into the Abyss

After the Abyss returned, the gods abandoned the mortal world.

Only the goddess of night, Yemisi, chose to stay and protect humanity.

She built the City of Eternal Night, keeping demons at bay.

She took the children of humanity under her wing, taught them divine arts, and helped them fuse with divine cores.

She listened to every believer and helped them through their troubles.

But later, people destroyed her temple and killed her followers, all while willingly offering their most fervent devotion to another beautiful girl.

Even the new gods were no exception.

They betrayed Yemisi for their own desires and tore out her divine core with their own hands.

Only as she lay dying did Yemisi understand that kindness was the cheapest thing in the world, and that, having transmigrated into a book, she was nothing before the true heroine.

The girl ascended to godhood, and the gods crowned her.

Yemisi, meanwhile, threw herself into the Abyss without hesitation.

Afterward, the people who had lost her protection began to miss all she had done for them, while the three supreme new gods grew increasingly mad with grief.

When they met again, they knelt beside Yemisi, willing to do anything she asked, believing that this would earn her forgiveness.

But Yemisi had long since stopped caring.

The Abyss had taught her never to soften her heart for anyone again.

She would tread upon blood and tears and climb back to the divine throne, one step at a time.

#If she cannot be the god of the mortal world, she will be her own god. From then on, there will be no gods in the mortal world.#

*

Demons are born without faith. They are forever cunning and selfish, greedy and insatiable.

But if it is you, Your Highness:

I am willing to defy my demonic nature and offer you my heart forever, as an expression of my highest love.

#The Abyss will be your eternal believer.#

Upcoming novel: The Beloved Junior Sister Won't Have a Torturous Romance with You All~

Before the junior sister joined Changyue Sect, everyone doted on me.

But after she arrived, everything changed.

My moon-bright master called me hopelessly stupid and said I was beyond saving. So he could make the junior sister his only disciple, he personally severed our bond as master and disciple and drove me out of Duanwen Peak.

He had once told me, when I first became his disciple: "If A-Jiang can't learn the sword, that's fine. There must be a path suited to you somewhere in the world. Your master will protect you."

My gentle, refined senior brother said I was spoiled and wicked, and that I was so jealous of the junior sister's talent that I had poisoned her with Soul-Severing Grass.

I said I hadn't, but he wouldn't believe me.

He had once smiled and told me that A-Jiang was the cutest, prettiest, kindest girl in the world.

Everyone in the sect hates me now.

I heard that the A-Jiang in the storybook eventually dies a miserable death in the Ten Thousand Ghosts' Cave.

I don't want that.

A-Jiang doesn't want to like these people anymore.

On the first day after Master drove me out, I happily went down the mountain.

The System tried to comfort me in a quiet voice, saying I was the heroine of a revenge story, and that one day they'd regret it and kneel at my feet, confessing, sobbing, and shedding tears.

*

A-Jiang doesn't understand what a revenge story is.

She only knows she doesn't have to stay at Changyue Sect, where everyone hates her.

There's a really great sect next door.

The senior brothers and sisters wear shabby, strange, ill-fitting robes, but they make her pretty dresses and buy her piles of lovely hair ornaments.

The only thing that bothers A-Jiang is that they keep watching her train, saying they absolutely must be the ones to beat those bad guys to a pulp.

Later, A-Jiang really does take them down with a single punch. Ten masters fall at once. Only then does she learn that the sect next door is called Wanjian Mountain, also known as Mad Dog Ridge.

Cen Yubai is the fiercest mad dog on Wanjian Mountain.

When he returned from training on South Mountain, he saw a little girl sitting all alone on Wanjian Mountain's stone stele, arms crossed.

At first, he didn't want to get involved.

Then he saw the sect's signboard shattered beneath Jiang Zhi, and immediately decided that no matter where the girl had come from, from that day on she belonged to Wanjian Mountain.

If they couldn't pay for the damage, they'd pay with themselves.

He never imagined that, in the end, all of Wanjian Mountain, himself included, would end up throwing themselves at Jiang Zhi.

Theme: Harmony and friendship among all peoples