The Little Martial Uncle Just Wants to Take It Easy

[They say cultivating the Heartless Dao comes with a destined partner. Take a look at my upcoming novel, The Heartless Dao Venerable Is Secretly in Love: gentle senior brother, sweet on the outside and dark within, as the top x cold on the outside, cheerful within, Heartless Dao bottom]

With a rare and extraordinary natural constitution, Gu Xuehui's cultivation had always gone smoothly.

That is, until he failed his third ascension tribulation. His Dao heart was now flawed, and if he tried to force his way through the tribulation, he risked going mad and falling into demonic cultivation.

If he couldn't make progress, he might as well give up and live like a lazy fish. Gu Xuehui went to a remote little sword cultivator sect and became an elder who left everything to others. Life was carefree and pleasant.

The Xuanzhi Sword Sect was only a second-rate sect in a remote corner of the world. He Huaixiao, the head disciple, had made it his life's goal to bring the sect to greatness. He worked diligently at his cultivation, was proper and composed, and held himself to strict standards. He was a model disciple among his peers.

The sect was small, but its elders were kind and its disciples diligent. Everything was thriving, except for his lazy little martial uncle.

His little martial uncle was peerless in his lack of ambition and never acted properly. If He Huaixiao didn't urge him to cultivate, the man would spend the whole day wandering around outside.

Fine, let things be.

He Huaixiao gradually accepted it all, took on the heavy responsibilities himself, and kept an eye on his lazy little martial uncle too, lest one day that troublesome temperament get him into trouble and someone run him through with a sword.

Then one day, He Huaixiao was trapped and, at the brink of despair, heard the clear sound of a blade dragging along the ground.

“You have two choices now: let him go, or wait for me to come and let him go. Oh... who am I?”

His usually carefree little martial uncle, who never liked to meddle, split open the Gate of Heaven with a single sword strike. He smiled at him, eyes crinkling, the tip of his sword pressed against the questioner's throat.

“I'm a nobody, not worth mentioning. I was only once the greatest swordsman in the world.”

*Upright, sincere younger top x unwillingly roused from his lazy life bottom

*No rebirth, no transmigration into a book, no System. Everyone works hard together, with plenty of hot-blooded, chuunibyou-style fights (probably?)

*Qi Refining - Foundation Establishment - Golden Core - Nascent Soul - Spirit Severing - Mahayana - Tribulation Transcendence

Coming soon: Mutual pining, The Heartless Dao Venerable Is Secretly in Love

The new discipline supervisor at the Cultivation Academy is Lan Jueqi, the number one Heartless Dao cultivator in the cultivation world and Junior Brother to the academy's director, Xie Qingyuan, though they belong to different branches of the same sect.

Rumor has it he's cold-hearted and ruthless, and when he found out that his senior sister had fallen in love, he mercilessly severed her romantic ties and expelled her from the sect.

On Lan Jueqi's first day, his inner thoughts were exposed: [The hunt begins,]

His cryptic thoughts sent the whole academy into a panic. The students trembled, convinced the big shot had come to crack down on rule-breaking and beat the student couples into submission.

No one outside knew that Lan Jueqi had taken the job as discipline supervisor at the Cultivation Academy because it was a good place to get information.

After all, he'd forgotten the identity of the person who made him fall in love and caused his tribulation to fail. The academy was the best place to look for clues.

Lan Jueqi shared this secret only with the senior brother he trusted most, Xie Qingyuan, the young sect master of Chongxu Mountain who had grown up with him.

“The person I secretly love must have an extraordinary bearing, unique under the heavens!”

Xie Qingyuan smiled faintly and said only that he would help keep an eye out.

That night, the library on Chongxu Mountain stayed brightly lit, and the young sect master spent the night awake, his eyes red.

When Xie Qingyuan heard that Lan Jueqi was about to face his love tribulation, he hurried back, but he was already too late.

After the tribulation clouds dispersed, he unexpectedly caught a speck of stardust. A strange electronic mechanical voice rang in his mind, binding him to a Heartless Dao cultivation System and granting him the ability to read minds.

The System's intended host was Lan Jueqi.

The junk System had chosen the wrong person, and its functions had gone haywire too.

Lan Jueqi's inner thoughts were broadcast aloud, and everyone in the two sects' younger generation could hear them, except Xie Qingyuan.

Compared with the horrified students, the academy director was even more frustrated.

The school bully, who had been earmarked for the number-one sect; the genius colleague who cultivated both music and swordsmanship; the Demon Venerable, Lan Jueqi's love-hate rival...

Who was the bastard who'd made his junior brother fall in love!

[I must really love him. I don't want to keep cultivating the Heartless Dao...]

[What do I do? I can't bring myself to kill my husband to prove the Dao anymore... Sob, I love him so much!]

The ringing sound of a sword being drawn came from beside him. Lan Jueqi looked up and saw his good senior brother pulling out his long sword.

Xie Qingyuan: “When are we killing your husband to prove the Dao? I'm free right now!”

Lan Jueqi: “???”

Theme: Stand on your own two feet and become a better version of yourself.