Yun Yang woke up to find herself in the cultivation world, bound to an absurd card-drawing System.
Mental Health System 525, here to solve all your unhappiness.
Yun Yang: ...This is just ridiculous.
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If you want to get rich, start by cultivating.
After going through countless hardships to join the Sword Sect, Yun Yang realized something was off.
Her third martial uncle was tall and imposing, a Nascent Soul sword cultivator who had mastered the art of traversing great distances in a single step. So why had he been afraid of heights for years?
Yun Yang: Ever heard of systematic desensitization and flooding?
Her fourth martial uncle was graceful in his green robes, gentle and refined, yet plagued by inner demons. His cultivation was actually regressing.
Yun Yang: How about psychoanalysis? I'll help you uncover the roots of your unconscious conflicts and anxiety.
Then there were her fellow disciples. On her left was a beautiful, tragic, obsessive type, constantly teetering on the edge of becoming evil. On her right was the classic harem-novel male lead, the sort who thinks he's the center of the universe and looks down on everyone.
Yun Yang sighed deeply and pulled out the SSR character cards she'd drawn at the cost of her lifespan:
Maslow. Skinner.
May the purifying light of humanism and the beatings of behaviorism be with you.
Before long, the entire cultivation world knew that the Sword Sect had an expert who was as gentle as a spring breeze and as fierce as a beast. Her techniques were strange and unpredictable. A faint smile from her could enlighten someone, and with a blank expression she could tear an inner demon apart with her bare hands. So the genius from Qianji Valley, whose brilliance had become a burden and who had lost all interest in life; the Holy Son of the Hehuan Sect, who had spent years hating men and women alike and had never been able to get it up; and the young master of the Demon Sect, who went berserk and mysteriously disappeared every night... Cultivators of both the righteous and wicked paths all came running.
Yun Yang: ?
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Three thousand years ago, the astonishingly gifted Sword Ancestor Hanguang carved out nine peaks, founded the Sword Sect, and wielded a peerless sword that made ten thousand swords bow. Its ringing resounded throughout the cultivation world, inspiring sword cultivators everywhere to follow him.
The Sword Ancestor guarded Mount Buzhou for three thousand years, keeping only his long sword and the wind and snow for company. Everyone believed he had cultivated the merciless path of slaughter, untouched by mortal affairs and emotion, having severed all love and desire. When he drew his sword, he killed without hesitation. Once, he entered the Demon Abyss alone and slaughtered a hundred thousand demons, darkening the sun and moon. He was widely considered the cultivator most likely to ascend to the immortal realm.
But no one knew that he had been secretly in love with his own master. He never confessed, not even before his master's death and the dissolution of their cultivation. This love, which he could neither attain nor let go of, tormented him for more than three thousand years.
Just as he was finally giving up, abandoning his hopes of ascension, and quietly waiting for his lifespan to run out, the natal sword his master had left behind flew away.
Xie Zhuo: !
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Also known as:
"Those Years I Spent as a Mental Health Counselor in the Cultivation World"
"Everyone Thinks I'm Hiding My Cultivation and Keeping a Low Profile"
"A Love That Crossed Three Thousand Years: The Master-Disciple Romance That Makes Them Both Eat Their Words"
P.S.
1. Psychology is both an ancient and a young science, with a glorious past, a thriving present, and a bright future. Real psychology follows scientific standards. It uses double-blind experiments, is falsifiable, and can be replicated. It cannot tell fortunes, read minds, or control people.
2. Psychology is a science, but cultivation is metaphysics. This is a lighthearted cultivation story, so take it with a clear head and have fun. Don't argue with me about it (important).
3. The card-drawing setup comes from the resentment of unlucky players who have to rely on pity pulls. If it seems familiar, that's perfectly normal.
4. The male lead will learn quite early that the heroine is his master, then secretly flirt with her. It starts as one-sided love and becomes mutual. I love both of them dearly. The pairing is set, no betting on other ships, and no angst.
5. Anyone who thinks, "If I can't have you, I'll destroy you," "I hurt you because I love you," or "I'll destroy the whole world for you" will get a thorough beating and learn how to behave.
6. A cultivation prodigy, ridiculous at heart, yet gentle and powerful when serious, with a clear head and a clear-eyed view of the world heroine x the widely acclaimed aloof beauty who secretly can turn into a cat and loves to act cute, with a lovely smile, the Sword Ancestor hero.
7. To be continued. I'll add more when I think of it.
Theme: Gentleness and goodness, honesty and friendliness.
