[Blurb]
1. Xue Huanchuan had cultivated deep in the mountains since childhood. Nearly five hundred years passed before his master died in meditation and finally sent him out into the world.
To find his family.
"Huanchuan, your mother is the master of Keshan. Go to Keshan and find her."
With his master's letter in hand, he came down from the mountains.
The myriad faces of the mortal world and the countless wonders of the cultivation world were all too complicated for him.
As Xue Huanchuan traveled through the world and searched for his mother, the complexity of the outside world left him reeling, but he enjoyed every moment of it.
Much time passed. He searched everywhere but couldn't find Keshan, so at last he opened the letter.
There were only a few lines.
But they weren't addressed to the master of Keshan. They were written to him.
By then, the sealing formation had crumbled, and the demonic fiend had returned to the world. In midair, Xue Huanchuan stood before everyone, facing the fiend from afar.
Behind the other stood a hundred-foot altar of blood and thousands of demonic cultivators. Behind him lay a world in chaos and its countless people.
"You should have been standing on this side," the fiend said.
Xue Huanchuan smiled softly, his plain white robes snapping in the wind that carried the stench of blood.
"I stand with those suffering for no reason."
2. Later, when Xue Huanchuan looked back on the years since he left the mountains and wondered what he had gained, he thought it over and realized there wasn't much:
A wanted poster, a shoddy spirit pill, a group of juniors who made a mess wherever they went, a bunch of ferocious demonic cultivators, and a truth that had never been written down...
His young disciples felt very sorry for him.
"Grandmaster, Grandmaster, why did you leave the mountains, then?"
Xue Huanchuan thought for a moment, then smiled. He patted the little disciple on the head and said:
"Because the world is wonderful, and I wanted to see it."
[This is the story of a five-hundred-year-old mountain boy going out to see the world, and a "little tadpole looking for his mother (?)" story.]
Reader's note:
1. The male lead has no romantic pairing. The protagonist is powerful from the start. This may not be a pure wish-fulfillment story; it's a mix of lighthearted and serious.
2. Blurb dated November 19, 2022, and saved.
Theme: The world is so big. I want to go see it.
