The Immortal Path Is About to Collapse, So I'll Save It

[Officially published on Jinjiang Literature City. Also, my upcoming historical BL novel about pursuing love, The First Sword After Ascending: First, Cut Down the Peach Blossom Tribulation, is listed below. Please add it to your reading list!] The following is this novel's blurb:

Xie Qinan's spiritual channels were completely severed, and all he wanted was to lie flat. But the leader of the foremost immortal sect forcibly dragged him away from his hometown, fed him and showered him with resources, and pushed him back onto the broad road of immortal cultivation.

But this road didn't seem very smooth. Every day, he ran into some bizarre characters:

A mysterious master with profound Daoist arts: "I have read the celestial signs. The stars across the heavens are falling. It is time for someone to enter the cycle of rebirth, and I have come to see you off."

A demon lord with an imposing aura: "You annoy me. Nothing is auspicious today, but killing you is."

At last, a dependable sect leader and master: "Go fly without fear. Chase your dreams bravely. I'll risk my life back home to protect you."

For some unknown reason, all these big shots from hell had their attention fixed on him, a lazy fish.

The pressure was getting to Xie Qinan. He just wanted to run away, but he realized that an unexpected person had joined him at some point.

The young master of the neighboring sect: "I see all those big shots are very interested in you, so I thought I'd join the fun."

Xie Qinan, exhausted: "Why don't you take my place while I leave?"

The young master nodded. "Sounds good. Step down, and I'll take the stage."

Xie Qinan: "?"

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Duan Qingyuan came from a family of physicians. He believed in doing as he pleased, and only ever followed his heart.

One day, he met someone. That person was tangled up in countless troubles and was really rather unlucky.

He was kind by nature, so of course he was going to help him. But then he realized that the man had stepped onto a stage where he was destined to die.

The man: "Go. Leave me alone."

Duan Qingyuan smiled. "It's no big deal. Come down first. I've wanted to tear this stage apart for a long time."

But in the end, the stage couldn't be torn down. It wasn't allowed to be.

Because Xie Qinan realized that the people standing on the stage that was about to send him to his doom were, in fact...

All the people of the world.

[Reading Guide]

1. A seemingly cold but wholehearted, bluntly affectionate shou who would betray the whole world for you the moment he falls in love x a seemingly kind gong who is actually consumed by hatred and obsessed with revenge.

2. This is the author's first novel. The pacing is slow at first, but gets better later on. There are some ensemble elements and plenty of foreshadowing. Interested readers are advised to buy it chapter by chapter, in case it isn't to your taste and you want to cut your losses.

3. One-on-one, HE.

4. The original title was After He Was Kidnapped Back to the Foremost Immortal Sect

The following is the blurb for my upcoming novel, The First Sword After Ascending: First, Cut Down the Peach Blossom Tribulation:

Demon Lord Lu Tinglan was born cold-hearted. He cultivated the Path of Unfeeling and wielded the Sword of Slaughter.

One day, he was gravely wounded and on the brink of death when a scholar saved him.

Lu Tinglan promised to repay him with a thousand taels of gold, but the scholar refused, saying that a precious bond was worth more than a thousand taels.

Lu Tinglan had never owed anyone anything in his life.

He thought that no matter how profound a mortal's bond might be, it could last only a mere hundred years. So he concealed his cultivation and accompanied the scholar into the mortal world. Amid the ebb and flow of worldly affairs, he told himself that his growing feelings were a lie, yet he grew accustomed to bringing home a box of the scholar's favorite mung bean pastries after work every day.

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Later, the scholar was in danger. In his desperation, Lu Tinglan put his protective jade pendant on him, then spent all his cultivation to save his life.

Exhausted and leaning on his sword as he caught his breath, Lu Tinglan felt a cold glint pierce through his chest, chilling him to the bone.

Yuan Suifeng, the cultivation world's foremost figure who had posed as a scholar for five years, caught his tottering body and looked down at him expressionlessly. "Your cultivation is too powerful, and you have treasures protecting you. Without exhausting your cultivation, it would be nothing short of a pipe dream for the immortal path to successfully destroy the demon."

Lu Tinglan's gaze blurred. He could faintly sense dazzling rays of heavenly light converging from every direction, while a cold voice from afar reached his ears: [Thanks to the Immortal Lord for ridding the world of the demon. From now on, a new fellow cultivator will be added to the immortal roster.]

He understood what it meant and thought: Look, the bonds between people really are just like this.

At last, he smiled and raised a hand to touch Yuan Suifeng's face. "My newly appointed immortal husband... Did you ever think that deceiving someone's feelings would bring the wrath of heaven down on you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a tribulation descended from the heavens.

Yuan Suifeng let him go and rushed forward to face it. When the final bolt of lightning fell, he could no longer resist, but a familiar warmth pressed against him, shielding him from the thunderbolts. Someone leaned over his shoulder and kissed his ear. "You saved me once. Now... I've paid you back..."

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Yuan Suifeng was unable to sever his worldly ties, and his ascension failed.

He searched every corner of heaven and earth, his devotion worn down to nothing, and finally found Lu Tinglan, who had vanished during the tribulation. Just as he reached out to take his hand, the other man ran a sword through his chest without mercy, and he collapsed helplessly to the ground.

Lu Tinglan pulled the protective jade pendant from his neck. "Why is my protective charm on you?"

Yuan Suifeng froze.

"Could it be that I gave it to you?" Lu Tinglan said. "Let me tell you, I, Lu Tinglan, cultivate the Path of Unfeeling. I would never give this to you with my own hands."

"The Path of Unfeeling?" Yuan Suifeng murmured. "But we were married..."

Lu Tinglan stared at him for a while, then suddenly sneered. "I forgot. I just went through a peach blossom tribulation not long ago. I've overcome it, and the great Path of Unfeeling is complete. If you still insist on clinging to me, don't blame me for getting violent."

Yuan Suifeng looked up in disbelief. "Were you... deceiving me all along?"

Lu Tinglan smiled. "What else? 'The Demon Lord was born without feelings and is steeped in the karma of slaughter.' Those were your own words when you hunted me down all those years ago. What, have you forgotten?"

[Reading Guide]

1. A former immortal prodigy who won the world but wronged him, a doting husband and devoted worshipper in the later chapters, gong x a lofty flower fallen into the mortal world, a seemingly cold but deeply devoted Demon Lord, shou

2. Contains lots of groveling and chasing after one's wife. But the author is a plot-focused writer, so this should be a groveling story with a bit of melodrama but a plot that hopefully holds up (laughs). It won't be too long.

3. One-on-one, HE, both leads are each other's first and only.

Theme: We all love this world