Dark Cultivation / A Million-Word Epic
Serious Blurb:
As the saying goes, dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and a mouse's son learns to dig holes. As a little cultivator with no sect, no faction, and no backing, Chang Han spent the first twenty-odd years of her life working as a servant for cultivators from powerful families.
Captured by a slave-trading band when she was little, it seemed her life would end with her being sold to a powerful family and spending her days trailing after its young masters and ladies as a servant.
Some are born with the bearing of dragons and phoenixes, while others are born with the fate of mice.
The Great Dao flows like water, and all living beings are fish! This lowly servant girl is no more than a little carp in a river or stream. But even a carp can face rushing waters and make for the sea, swimming against the current toward the wilderness!
So what if she was born a slave? Being fated to be a carp is no big deal. Today, she is a carp in a river, so she will swim upstream, straight toward the sea!
She will leap over the Dragon Gate!
Silly Blurb:
This story is also known as Cultivating Without Paying Long-Distance Phone Bills, The Tens of Thousands of Years of Phone Romance, and Things to Know When Turning a Phone Romance into a Real-Life Meeting.
Transmigrated, self-made, patient and calculating, Oscar-winning heroine × warm on the outside, cold on the inside, gossipy and good at putting on an act hero
A long-distance phone romance between two people who keep tugging at each other. A cultivation story about cheering each other on over the phone and finally meeting in person.
Chang Han transmigrated into the legendary world of cultivation, a place where people were treacherous and all manner of demons and monsters lurked. She had only wanted to scrape by and stay alive, but by chance, she discovered that she possessed a spiritual meridian and could cultivate.
The boundless immortal path that cultivation leads to is Heaven Above Heaven, the Dao Above Dao.
The world she originally lived in was merely a butterfly in one of the lower realms along that endless immortal path. She had come here because her own world had flapped its wings and blown her away. If she embarked on this path, one day she might return to the world she once knew.
At the beginning of her cultivation journey, she picked up a strange stone. It could do everything from generating gold automatically and checking whether treasures were genuine to pointing the way and detecting spiritual energy and secret realms. Then one dark, windy night, it started speaking!
Stone: Hello, hello, hello! Can anyone hear me? If you can, please answer!
Chang Han: What the hell! Who the hell are you?!
Li Chao was a heaven-blessed prodigy, born and raised in a powerful family. Everyone called him the Young Venerable of Battle. When he was at the height of his glory, the people around him gathered at his side. But when the young immortal lord's spine was broken, his spiritual meridian was ripped out, and his cultivation was destroyed, everyone who had once surrounded him abandoned him. His parents died in battle, his relatives turned against one another, and his former pride was shattered. Hunted by six venerables, he was forced to hide his identity.
After narrowly escaping death, Li Chao hid in a mountain gorge. One day, he found a stone.
The stone could conceal his presence and keep him safe, and it could even connect to and repair his damaged spiritual meridian. Then, one night, strange muttering came from inside it.
Stone: My cultivation journey starts today! According to the plan, tomorrow I'll head to a secret realm to seize some treasures... Three parts are determined by fate, seven parts by hard work. You only win if you dare to fight!!!! Charge!!!!
Li Chao: ...? You can talk too?!
Please note:
1. This is a plot-driven, orthodox cultivation story, with romance as a secondary element. Also, as is my usual habit, once the male lead is set as the main one, there will be plenty of men entangled with the heroine. Take it as you like, but the endgame is decided, hehe.
2. There is bloodshed and death. It's a long-distance romance, and the leads live in different worlds and can't meet at first. The stone lets them communicate by phone. The male lead is only a voice at first, and they can only talk by voice!!! They won't meet in person until much, much later!!!
3. The heroine really does build everything from scratch. She starts out in a miserable situation as a slave. The hero, once a heaven-blessed prodigy, has become a cripple after his cultivation was destroyed and must cultivate again. They each find a stone in their own world, which lets them connect and talk to each other.
4. Their worlds are different small worlds in the same region along the endless immortal path. Different small worlds cannot interact or communicate in any way. Only after reaching a certain level of cultivation can one travel to the worlds in the regions above.
5. I'll add more if I think of anything.
Theme: Never give up as long as there's hope!!
