Master, Be Frail Again

The Xuan Tian Sect's immortal master, Xie Ling, had spent years in seclusion. The moment she finally went out and came back, she took on a disciple.

Her fellow senior disciples were always pouring their hearts out to her about how hard it was to be a master. Their little brats drove them up the wall every day, and they urged her to be ruthless when teaching her own disciple.

Punish her when she deserves it, beat her when she needs it. Never go soft, and never give her a chance to defy her master.

Every outrageous rule has an outrageous story behind it, especially in the Xuan Tian Sect, where a disciple falls to demonic cultivation in every generation.

Armed with her seniors' firsthand guide, Xie Ling had an epiphany. She was going to put their hard-won experience to good use. Time to roll up her sleeves and get to work.

Gu Tan looked pitiful, her eyes faintly red. "Master, are you going to punish me physically? QAQ"

Xie Ling: "...No punishment."

Xie Ling rolled her sleeves back down.

Xie Ling raised a hand and patted her head to comfort her.

Gu Tan: QwQ Hehe.

The mortal-world bad habit of claiming that hitting means affection and scolding means love had no place in the cultivation world. Xie Ling decided to become the good master everyone in the cultivation world envied, giving her little disciple all the care she could.

She thought her little disciple was perfect in every way: hardworking, sweet-tongued, and well-behaved. There was no way this lovely little turnip with a water spirit root would fall to demonic cultivation.

The only odd thing was the way she spoke. She always looked after Xie Ling as if she were some fragile flower.

As a master, she ought to be tolerant of her disciples and teach them patiently.

Just when Xie Ling thought her efforts were paying off, she went into seclusion again to recover from her injuries. When she emerged, she heard that her little disciple had fallen to demonic cultivation.

Xie Ling: ?

Not only had she fallen to demonic cultivation, she had become the Demon Venerable.

Xie Ling: ?!

Where was my disciple? Where had that enormous disciple of mine gone?!

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Before transmigrating into the book, Gu Tan had scoffed at the protagonist. After transmigrating, she wanted to sink her teeth into her.

Especially when her otherworldly, celestial, delicate, fragile (?), and beautiful master kept insisting she was incredibly strong, claiming she could split a mountain with every swing of her sword.

And she did not just say it. She had to demonstrate it in front of Gu Tan, too.

Seeing the bloodstained handkerchief in her own hands, Gu Nantan became even more convinced that her jade-like master was just putting on a brave face for her.

Everyone said that the Lotus-Folding Immortal Venerable of Snowpeak was like a pure moon in the heavens, aloof, ethereal, and beyond reach.

Gu Tan did not dare reach for the moon in the sky. She only wanted to gaze up at it from the mortal world, but things never went as she wished.

As Gu Tan stood before the Demon Palace, reminiscing about the past and marveling that she had somehow become the Demon Venerable, someone smashed through her front gate.

Gu Tan: ?

Then her subordinate reported that someone had broken through the gate and was fighting their way over.

Gu Tan: ??

Gu Nantan had already resigned herself to death, sure that her master had come to purge the sect.

But Xie Ling swept in, slapped the two Guardians flying, and shouted, "Tell me! Why did you run away from home?!"

Gu Tan: ???

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1. Xie Ling x Gu Tan

A master who is often at low health but has maxed-out combat power, top x a sweet-talking, beautiful disciple who transmigrated into a book, bottom. Older top, raising the disciple.

2. A love story between two people who see each other through rose-colored glasses [Added 2023.02.05]

Theme: Develop a sound outlook on life.