All Spirits

[This novel will be available for purchase on June 30. The upcoming novel "Junior Sister, Come Here" is also open for advance collection on my profile!]

Synopsis

Legend has it that among the Guardians of the Realms, there was once a clan born with powerful spiritual energy, able to communicate with all things in the world. They were called the Lingxi Clan.

The Lingxi Clan's ancestral maxim was: "With a single thought, all things come into being. All things possess a spirit, and we shall protect them."

Several hundred years ago, the clan suddenly vanished without a trace. From then on, no one in the world could speak with all things.

Several hundred years later, Zhi Xiao opened her eyes in the snowy reaches of the Sacred Mountain.

At last able to descend the mountain, she had hoped to live as a carefree, leisurely soul. She never expected that the generations after her would all prove so useless that their disgrace would land right at her feet.

Zhi Xiao: "...Fine. I'll have to handle it myself."

Otherwise, her ancestors would be turning over in their graves.

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When Feng Xing was born, the world was in chaos, with famine year after year. As a young beast, he was exceedingly weak. In a moment of desperate hunger, he ate half of his own body. Just as he was on the brink of death, someone saved him.

Zhi Xiao didn't mind that he was ugly or dirty, or that the way he ate was disgusting. She even gave him the name Xiao Hei.

He knew Guardians of the Realms accepted spirit beasts, and he wanted her to recognize him as one. Gathering his courage, he asked her once, but Zhi Xiao only smiled and said, "No. You're too weak. Come back when you're stronger."

He already thought himself unworthy, and after that, he never dared bring it up again.

Later, the Guardians of the Realms were besieged, and the Lingxi Clan was wiped out.

Despairing, he waited outside the snowy reaches of the Sacred Mountain where Zhi Xiao had disappeared, rescuing a few of her surviving clansmen along the way. He waited for more than seven hundred years.

When they met again, she looked just as she had before, her clear gaze bright as water. "Why are you looking at me like that? Do you know me?"

Feng Xing: "..."

All things have a spirit, except for this heartless woman!

A heroine who looks like an icy goddess but is actually an antiquated relic with endless curiosity, VS a proud, unruly divine beast who won't be swayed by force or persuasion and has spent centuries focused on digging wild vegetables.

1. Modern alternate setting, supernatural fantasy (mild horror)

2. The heroine is beautiful, powerful, and tragic

3. The hero is a ferocious beast (Come on, show them how ferocious you are!)

4. Fight monsters and fall in love

Upcoming Novel Synopsis

"Junior Sister, Come Here"

Yun Ruo transmigrated into a cultivation novel as an ordinary passerby, not even a cannon-fodder character, just a completely unremarkable person.

But she was incredibly lucky. The Xuan Yang Sect, the foremost sect among the immortal schools, found her and took her in. From then on, she became the sect's most beloved junior sister.

Her eldest senior brother was an outstanding prodigy, as imposing as a mountain, and he only had eyes for her. He overcame every obstacle to find all kinds of rare treasures and precious curiosities for her.

Her second senior brother was handsome and refined, like someone who lived above the clouds and had no ties to the mortal world. Yet he was willing to take her down the mountain to release river lanterns and buy snacks.

Her youngest senior brother was cold and taciturn, but whenever Yun Ruo fell ill, he was always the one sitting by her bed to care for her when she woke in the middle of the night.

It wasn't until she was sealed inside a jade coffin, her meridians cleansed and her soul extracted, that she finally learned the truth amid bone-deep, heart-searing torment.

The body she had transmigrated into possessed a rare Phoenix Bone. Even a soul reduced to the faintest trace of life could be gradually nourished and restored inside her. Her senior brothers had taken her in only to use her as nourishment to save their beloved who had died young.

Now the time was right. As soon as her soul was scattered, the other person could take over her body and be reborn.

Yun Ruo was in so much pain she gritted her teeth. Fine, fine, she knew she was never lucky enough to win anything in a draw, only ever getting a "Thanks for playing."

She'd only indulged in a little eye candy. How could the price be so steep?

But Yun Ruo didn't die. When she opened her eyes again, decades had passed.

The good news: this time, she had transmigrated with her body intact. With body and soul united, she was a cultivation prodigy whose spiritual meridians had all awakened.

The bad news: she was penniless, had no idea how to use her natural talent, and the nearest sect was thousands of miles away.

At the immortal schools' once-a-decade grand tournament, the champions of every event all came from the same obscure little sect. The first disciple of the Xuan Yang Sect personally brought the prizes to them. Yun Ruo was busy competing with her senior sister for the wine when she turned her head and called, "Senior Brother."

The figures who had just entered froze. The treasure in the eldest disciple's hand nearly slipped, and his eyes instantly turned blood-red.

A tall, slender figure stepped out from behind them, passed the others, and answered with a smile, "Hey, Junior Sister."

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At first, Bai Li Ye had merely plucked a gifted little fool from the crowd and brought her back to his sect. He never expected to end up giving his own heart away.

1. My own take on cultivation, with plenty of original worldbuilding

2. The heroine starts from scratch and makes a powerful comeback. Her growth takes time.

3. Everyone from her original sect gets their comeuppance

4. Everyone in her new sect is sincere, and the heroine is their darling

Theme: Hold reverence in your heart, and cherish all things