Drawing Cards in a Cultivation Game: From the Start, I Draw the Pig-Cage Punishment

Li Xiuli wins a beta-testing slot for a cultivation game. Everyone gets three chances to draw an identity card, and cards of different ranks come with different fated opportunities for cultivation. She draws an R-rank card with a respectable background. Excited, she chooses her identity and enters the game. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself locked inside a pig cage, with a crowd gathered around her. Someone says, “A woman who’s lost her chastity has disgraced her family. She deserves to die!” Her parents drop to their knees with a thump, begging for their daughter’s life! Li Xiuli thinks she’s been given a glimmer of hope. But her father and mother say, “Clan Chief, how about we send her to be sacrificed to the River God after all?” In thirty years of sacrifices to the River God, 708 women’s bones have been buried locally. Some victims went in weeping, others went with a knife in hand, but not one survived. And this sacrifice, from which no one returns alive, is the only fated opportunity for cultivation Li Xiuli’s identity card offers in this lifetime. The frail mortal girl in the pig cage tells the clan chief, “I’m willing to be sacrificed. But you have to give me a wooden sword, a sick cat, and the cage I’m trapped in.” About the novel: 1. The female lead is a chuunibyou girl. 2. A satisfying power-up story. 3. The characters listed in the supporting cast are not the male lead. 4. This is my take on cultivation. I reject the usual mortal cultivation tropes, such as spiritual roots. I borrow some Taoist terms, but the rest is all made up. Update schedule: I’ll try to update daily. Announcement: Going VIP on February 2, with three chapters on launch day. Theme: The road to growth, striving ceaselessly