A Guide to Ascending as a Rogue Cultivator

---Completed!--- Guiyin does everything so she can live freely. As long as she is alive, every hardship is a stepping stone. After a thousand years of cultivation, she stirs the cultivation world into turmoil and unleashes a storm of bloodshed, all on her own. Guiyin: I wander, I flee, but I get to write the new rules. * From the day she set foot on the path of cultivation, Guiyin was determined to be a cultivation maniac. If it doesn't kill her, she'll keep pushing herself to the limit. Though she is an unaffiliated cultivator, she always finds one outrageous trick or another to sneak into the various sects and mooch off their spiritual energy. Then one day, on a whim, she paid a fortune at auction for a merfolk she'd met a few times. That was when something besides cultivation entered her life. Her lovely, fair-skinned merfolk partner vanished in a secret realm. When they met again, he had become someone else, perhaps not even human. She keeps running into her missing partner, and every time, he is a completely new species and no longer recognizes her. "Who did you say I am?" Guiyin replied expressionlessly, "You're my helpless, can't-even-look-after-yourself partner (?). That's the fourth time." "..." Later, Guiyin found herself the subject of gossip among the myriad demons. Merfolk cultivator: "She tricked our former clan leader's only son into going with her." Beastfolk cultivator: "But I often see her with that wolf clan boy, practically joined at the hip." Avian cultivator: "I heard she and our young clan leader exchanged tokens the first time they met." The other demon cultivators also chattered about what they had seen, until they reached a conclusion: She specializes in playing with demon cultivators' feelings. What a scumbag. She was clearly devoted to one partner, yet became the cultivation world's most infamous womanizer. Bonus scene: Jiang Yu: "Why do you keep looking back?" Guiyin: "I suspect that turtle by the lake, the one that kept glancing at me, is my partner." Jiang Yu: "...Is that why your partner is different every time?" Guiyin: "Is your partner always the same?" Jiang Yu turned to look at their partner and fell into deep thought. Partners can keep changing like that? * Cultivation: Qi Refining - Foundation Establishment - Golden Core - Nascent Soul - Deity Transformation - Void Insight - Body Integration - Mahayana - Tribulation Transcendence - Ascension Body Refinement: Body Refining - Tendon Transformation - Meridian Opening - Bone Tempering - Organ Return - Calamity Shattering - Aperture Integration - Golden Body - Nirvana - Ascension Notes: 1. A gradual power-up story with a slow start. 2. The female lead is a shameless troublemaker in the early stages. 3. The male lead appears late, in multiple incarnations. Coming soon on the author's page: "Huh? How Did You Know I Have a Gui?" Theme: Reject slacking off and forge ahead bravely.