Cultivating Immortality, but with the Hundred Schools of Thought

Yu Yan is a fanfiction writer whose stories are so bad they earn little attention and a flood of negative reviews.

One day, she transmigrates to a mysterious world of cultivation.

Her companion artifact, a writing-on-the-go System in the form of a keyboard, tells her that if she wants to go home, she must cultivate diligently until she attains immortality.

To get home, Yu Yan has no choice but to explore this mysterious new world. She learns that instead of paths like the Heartless Dao or the Hehuan Dao, this cultivation world has schools of thought such as the Daoists, Confucians, Mohists, Yin-Yang School, Agriculturalists, Medical Classics School, Diviners, and more.

The good news: She's a novelist.

The bad news: This world's "novelists" aren't what people in the modern world mean by the term. They're one of the Hundred Schools of Thought: the School of Novelists.

In this strange world, Daoists become gods through cultivation, Buddhists through merit, Mohists through machinery, Confucians through exams, the Yin-Yang School through secret arts, doctors through spirit pills, and Agriculturalists by growing spirit fruit and immortal herbs... Each school has its own path to ascension.

And the School of Novelists... Novelists need to build up their popularity and follow-up readership to become gods.

The obscure writer Yu Yan angrily smashes her System.

Damn it! Even in a world of cultivation, I still have to chase popularity?!

The Great Dao stretches far, with many branching paths; within myriad laws, truth still abides.

The Hundred Schools thunder in fierce contention; the countless living knock at the gates of immortality.

Reader's guide:

· Yu Yan x Xu Xing, School of Novelists x Agriculturalists

· Female lead, BG/GB. The GB scenes use props, no permanent equipment.

· Some names of the Hundred Schools of Thought have been adapted, but this is not historical fiction. Please don't nitpick the history.

· A mixed-genre story, not a power fantasy. Read with caution.

· Supporting characters include BG/GB/BL/GL and various unusual orientations. Please don't read if that bothers you.

· An atypical cultivation story, set in a fictional world unrelated to reality and not intended as an allegory. Please don't read it as one. Don't apply real-world values, and don't have undue expectations of any character, including the protagonists.

Theme: Be a decent person