Lying Is Forbidden in the Cultivation World

Xu Ran transmigrates into a xianxia novel, and on top of getting the worst possible start, she's bound to a Truth-Telling System.

Xu Ran: Damn System.

Why do everyone else's Systems give them a golden finger, while hers forces her to tell the truth?

But Xu Ran has always been determined to succeed. She rolls up her sleeves and gets to work on her path to immortality, vowing to make a name for herself in the cultivation world.

It's just that, for some reason, nobody believes her even when she tells the truth.

When faced with a demonic beast, Xu Ran pulls out a thick stack of top-grade talismans and pelts it with them as if they cost nothing. Everyone present is astonished. "She's loaded!"

Xu Ran tells the truth: "I drew these myself."

But she only gets a chorus of scoffs. "If you bought them, just say you bought them. Why brag?"

In a secret realm, everyone is wounded and sprawled on the ground, unable to move. Xu Ran struggles to feed herself a top-grade healing pill and instantly feels refreshed, with most of her injuries healed.

Everyone asks, "Where did you get such a miraculous medicine?"

The honest Xu Ran says coolly, "I made it myself."

Why does she still have to brag at a time like this? After staring silently at the sky for a long while, everyone tries to butter her up. "Could we have one of those pills?"

"Sure." Xu Ran smiles. "That'll cost you."

That's what you get for not believing me.

It isn't until the sect tournament, when Xu Ran's brush brings a talisman to life and summons heavenly thunder, and her sword cleaves the heavens and earth, that everyone finally realizes she was telling the truth.

"I told you ages ago, I'm good at everything." Xu Ran gives the talisman in her hand a shake. "Why does nobody believe me?"

*

Yun Xianshan went to watch the excitement and ended up picking up a disciple. Since he'd already taken her in, he decided to teach her properly. Though he sometimes slacked off, turning into his original form to bask in the sun, he was still a conscientious master.

That is, until one day, his little disciple came looking for her master and caught him, then cuddled him and couldn't stop petting his fur...

Xu Ran: There are cats in the cultivation world!

Yun Xianshan waved his paw pads in the air, wondering if he should find some herbs to improve his disciple's eyesight. How could she mistake even a cat for something else?!

*

Xu Ran picked up a cat.

She carried it to the lake, set off a burst of fish with a few talismans, then casually picked one up and held it to the cat's mouth. "It's fresh. Eat up."

Yun Xianshan could take no more. He scratched Xu Ran, then made a speedy escape.

The next day, Xu Ran received a book titled A Guide to Beasts of the Cultivation World. When she opened it, she found a line of hastily written text:

[Cats in the cultivation world don't eat fish.]

*The male lead isn't a cat. He just looks like one in his original form.

*The heroine grows stronger over time.

I Don't Want the Protagonist's Halo

Fang Shi was the strongest fighter in the Empire. After dying on the battlefield, she transmigrated into the heroine of an old-fashioned, melodramatic novel. The heroine has immortal bones and extraordinary talent, but gets besieged by both the righteous and demonic factions over a single immortal herb. After enduring hundreds of tortures, including having her tendons ripped out and bones scraped clean, she is stabbed through the heart by the male lead, hailed as the light of righteousness, and meets a tragic end: body and soul destroyed.

Fang Shi: ...

Great. She's become everyone's enemy from the start. All she can do is work hard to become the strongest under heaven, so nobody dares bully her.

To change her fate, Fang Shi diligently cultivates. As she advances in rank, she also gets into mecha research in the cultivation world. Just as everything is proceeding according to plan, she starts worrying about the Protagonist Halo System bound to her.

She's a ghost cultivator, and entering the ghost path requires abandoning her physical body. In short, she needs to die first. But with the Protagonist Halo protecting her, she can't die even if she wants to.

She jumps off a cliff, only for a flock of butterflies that appear out of nowhere to catch her, then dance and gather before her eyes to form five enormous words:

[Live with a smile]

She tries to kill herself with a sword, but before it even touches her, the peerless blade, sharp enough to cut through metal, suddenly snaps at the tip. Then, using the blood on the ground as ink, it scrawls: "Hehe, you just can't die!"

After failing to kill herself, Fang Shi has no choice but to change tactics and start trying to get herself killed. She goes out of her way to provoke the mighty figures of every faction, from the righteous sect leader who brings life to all things with a single sword stroke to the Demon Lord who can kill a thousand people in two steps. Every last one of them becomes her defeated opponent.

Sitting beside the Demon Lord's corpse, Fang Shi lets out a deep sigh. "Isn't there anyone in the cultivation world who can put up a fight?"

She wants to attain the Great Dao, but even finding a way to die is this difficult. Can she please get rid of this protagonist's halo?

-

After failing to get herself killed again and again, Fang Shi sets her sights on the original male lead.

Pei Yishu is a genius sword cultivator who reigns supreme in the cultivation world with his Frostcold Sword. In everyone's eyes, he's a sacred figure, pure as snow on a mountaintop. In the novel, he and the heroine share a tumultuous romance.

Fang Shi borrows the original plot and weaves a snare of love around Pei Yishu, leaving him with nowhere to run. After dragging the aloof beauty down from his pedestal, she kicks him aside. "I was just playing around. You actually took it seriously?"

According to the plot, the male lead should now go red-eyed and wild with grief, then end her life with a single sword strike.

Fang Shi waits eagerly for that fated strike to fall, ready to go on a rampage and become...

With a clang, the Frostcold Sword falls to the ground.

Ghostfire coils around him. The man, usually as gentle as jade, now looks like a specter. Pei Yishu's lips curve slightly as he says casually, "If someone's bullying you, I'll kill them for you. Why would you risk your life over a bunch of nobodies?"

Fang Shi: ?

Did her male lead go crazy in the wrong direction?

Theme: Treat others sincerely, and you'll find love and friendship.