After Senior Brother Awakened

Ning Congxue wakes up to discover that she's been transported into a female-led cultivation novel, as a nameless passerby in the background.

The passerby is stunningly beautiful and exceptionally talented. Her only role in the story is to inspire the original heroine to cultivate hard and ascend to immortality.

With an attitude of working hard, but not too hard, she's quite satisfied with her nearly nonexistent sect:

Her master is the strongest sword cultivator of the age, but spends the entire year at home.

Her senior apprentice brother is usually nowhere to be found, secretly keeping the sect running from the shadows.

Her third junior apprentice sister has a cauldron physique, but is actually the long-lost beloved daughter of a powerful cultivator.

And the future Demon Emperor, the only junior apprentice brother connected to the original heroine, is still a little cub who can't take human form.

Feeling safe, Ning Congxue works hard while slacking off, occasionally going out to watch the other sects' love and hate dramas. She lives freely and happily.

But why is her senior apprentice brother looking at her more and more strangely?

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Tan Xingze is the all-around top senior apprentice of the Xuantian Sword Sect. One day, he suddenly realizes he's living in the world of a storybook.

His pitiful little sect, with only five members, is the story's cannon fodder stepping stone, and he is the nameless senior apprentice brother, rumored to have poor aptitude and to die young.

Tan Xingze: There's no way that could be me!

So, under the lead of the top senior apprentice, the junior apprentice brother takes human form ahead of schedule, the third junior apprentice sister can hold down mountains and rivers, and even their master, who never leaves home, returns to the cultivation world to stir up trouble. Only his extraordinarily talented second junior apprentice sister still cultivates for precisely four hours a day, rain or shine.

At a loss, Tan Xingze ponders for a long while, then takes out a set of magical artifacts that have been gathering dust for ages.

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Much later, a new disciple happens upon the two of them and, gathering their courage, asks the question that has puzzled the entire cultivation world for ages: "Venerable Ning, what makes you keep cultivating so diligently despite having such extraordinary talent?"

Ning Congxue, who has long since become invincible beneath the heavens, replies with a solemn expression and unwavering conviction: "Humanity's most basic needs!"

Theme: Work hard to build a better future!