After the Cataclysm

[Cultivation, monster-slaying and leveling up] [Close-knit group] [Road trip story] [Episodic]

Nie Chun, a true disciple of Xuntian Sect, had been mediocre from childhood, especially compared to her exceptionally talented senior brothers and sisters. But she had one grand ambition: to claim the sect leader's golden crown from her master!

Twenty years ago, a calamity struck. Her eldest senior brother and master sacrificed themselves to save the world, their souls utterly destroyed.

With his dying breath, her master handed her the golden crown and entrusted her with taking over as sect leader in their hour of need, ridding the world of evil, upholding righteousness, and cleansing away every stain.

Her childhood wish had come true.

Twenty years passed. After the calamity, spiritual energy in the cultivation world dwindled, and the age of the End of the Dharma began. Many things that had once been unremarkable became priceless treasures. Even ordinary levels of cultivation were now enough to make someone a powerful master.

Take her, for example. She had been at the Void Refinement realm before completing her training. Now, in an age when powerful cultivators had fallen and talent had withered, she was a grandmaster whom others could only look up to.

Nie Chun discovered that after she got her wish and took over as sect leader, spiritual treasures kept gravitating toward her.

Spirit mines, sentient brushes, and sword spirits came one after another.

Her popularity, romantic luck, and fortune were all on the rise.

Also known as:

#After the Calamity, I Became a Powerhouse#

#After I Got My Wish and Inherited the Sect Leader's Golden Crown#

* A lightly ensemble-focused episodic story

* Not much romance

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1. Historical romance: Hunting the Moon

A willful princess x a cool, aloof Imperial Preceptor

Wild rose x moon atop a lofty peak

A seductive, manipulative woman x a virtuous gentleman

Blurb:

After returning to the palace, Jiu Fang Huanning could get anything she wanted. There was almost nothing in the world beyond her reach.

Except for Bai Cang, the Imperial Preceptor from the Temple of Xuyu, an immortal as clear and bright as the moon.

She had set her heart on the moon, but the moon hung high above, shining on everyone but her.

Never mind. She had a weakness for things she couldn't have. "If the moon won't shine on me, then I'll hunt it down."

Sooner or later, she would pluck that ray of moonlight and make it shine on her alone.

*

Bai Cang was noble, upright, and pure of character, an exceptional Imperial Preceptor who stood apart from the mortal world.

That was until he met Princess Le'an, brought back from the countryside.

He saw Jiu Fang Huanning acting intimately with her bodyguard, then spending romantic evenings with a hostage prince from an enemy state. At the same time, she flirted with him, sending him a love poem or a suggestive song every day at the Temple of Xuyu, and boldly declaring her love.

She was utterly outrageous, shameless, and completely without decorum.

No amount of teaching her propriety and shame would do any good.

Later, Jiu Fang Huanning stole her sister's betrothal and volunteered to marry into the enemy state in her place.

But on the eve of the diplomatic marriage, Jiu Fang Huanning vanished without a trace.

In a secret chamber at the Temple of Xuyu, fragrance drifted through the air.

The temple master, usually as calm as a still well, was consumed by jealousy. There was not a trace of his usual brightness and composure.

"How can you take back what you said? Have you forgotten all those passionate words, Princess?"

Bai Cang's gaze darkened. He caressed her spine, pressed close to her temple, and recited the love poems she'd written him long ago, over and over.

------ Blurb posted on 2025/09/03

2. After Mistaking the Star Lord

A proud, sharp-tongued dragon girl with a black-lotus heart x a steady, scheming Martial Star Lord

#After sleeping with her master's colleague, the heroine runs away#

#□□#

Fu Shui, the most dutiful disciple in the world, learned that her master, the greatest female war goddess in the Three Realms, had a secret crush on the Star Lord of Wenqu. She immediately hurried back to the North Sea Dragon Palace, grabbed a collection of secret weapons, including a red string, an aphrodisiac, a love-lock needle, and Fragrance of Delight, and set out to tie up that Star Lord and bring him back to her master.

But she mistook the Martial Star Lord, who looked just like her target, for the man she was after.

Unaware of her mistake, Fu Shui fumbled her way through a series of mishaps, and every one of her secret weapons ended up being used on herself.

When the effects kicked in, it felt like ten thousand ants were burrowing into her heart. Her whole body burned with desire, her eyes grew hazy, and Fu Shui couldn't resist. She forced herself on the handsome, unconscious man before her.

Once the effects wore off, Fu Shui was devastated, helpless, and wracked with guilt. She thought she'd slept with her master's beloved and couldn't bear to face her master. Overcome with remorse, she slapped her thigh, decided to run away, and hid in the North Sea Dragon Palace, the place she hated most.

*

The Martial Star Lord was a god of war in the Three Realms, responsible for keeping the realms at peace. After sealing away the Demon King, he suffered serious injuries and went elsewhere to recuperate.

During his recovery, his body was asleep, but his mind remained awake.

The audacious female immortal who had done whatever she pleased with him made the Martial Star Lord furious.

What made him even angrier was that after it was over, she simply left without taking responsibility, and even dared to run away!

He'd search every corner of heaven and earth until he found her. She would take responsibility.

Theme: I will go forth even against ten thousand