I’ll Defeat Ten Thousand Swords with Acupuncture

[This story will go VIP starting with Chapter 32 on October 16. If you've already read it, please don't buy it!]

Synopsis

[Bad ending. The female lead is the only one who survives. If you can't accept that, run!]

Ning Wei, an acupuncturist, transmigrates into an unconventional cultivation world.

It should have been a world where every path of cultivation shone brightly, but sword cultivators reign supreme, while all other traditions have withered away.

Everyone urges her to cultivate the sword.

But in the end, she resolutely abandons the sword path and chooses medicine, joining Dust Peak, which everyone calls worthless.

Everyone says she'll disappear into obscurity at Dust Peak. After all, that mountain has buried far too many once-promising prodigies.

But Ning Wei manages to climb her way up.

Ning Wei meets many people in her life. As time passes, the faces of most grow blurry, but the people she met at Dust Peak remain as clear as if she had seen them yesterday.

Her master, Huan Zhiheng, is a peerless talent who devotes himself to Confucian cultivation. He spends hundreds of years stuck at the Golden Core stage, unable to advance a single step. Later, when the whole sect hunts him down, he holds off every pursuer and says only, "Ning Wei, survive."

Her senior sister, Duan Yuanru, was originally a cannon-fodder character who didn't even survive ten lines in a power-fantasy novel about a destined hero. Later, to protect all living beings, she turns herself into a formation and traps a vast horde of invaders. Pointing to the ravaged land, she urges Ning Wei, "Ning Wei, save them."

Her second senior brother, Duan Yanzhao, was supposed to be the world's chosen one, the destined hero. But an invader takes over his body, leaving his hands stained with blood and his soul burdened by sin. In anguish and remorse, he destroys himself. He says, "Ning Wei, kill me."

Her third senior brother, Lu Rao, was once a proud young man, but his pride is broken. After enduring countless hardships, he disappears into the mortal world and wanders. Later, trapped in the past, he tries to piece together the days they once shared. He asks, "Ning Wei, when will you come home?"

Her dear friend, Mo Ling, is a prodigy of the sword who carries a great sense of justice. Yet reality leaves her trapped and controlled by others for her entire life. Later, she kills her master and seizes power, finally gaining a brief moment of freedom before sacrificing herself for her cause. She says, "Ning Wei, look at the world for me."

Where the Way leads, there I shall go.

Nanze is the embodiment of all filth and darkness in the world.

Born in a mire and raised in chaos, he understands neither human nature nor emotion.

At the very moment a demonic creature knocks him down and devours him, someone pulls him out of the mire.

That person says, "Since you were born in the south, in the marshes, I'll call you Nanze."

"The southern marshes nourish the land around them."

Nanze never knew that someone as wretched as him could nourish anything.

He lives to fulfill that person's wish, bringing order to chaos and sheltering the weak beneath a sky of their own.

He strives to nourish the land around him.

But one day, that person kills his people.

[Reading Guide]

1. This is my take on cultivation, with many original worldbuilding details.

2. The male lead appears midway through the story. The pairing won't change, but there may be a tiny hint of a romantic subplot for the female lead early on, something like a first crush that quickly comes to nothing.

3. This is not a typical cultivation novel. It leans toward an ensemble cast, with a slow-burn pace and a female lead who attracts many admirers.

4. It contains some rather childish power-fantasy elements.

5. Cultivation levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Integration, Void Refinement, Great Ascension, Ascension.

6. The author is not a medical professional. If anything about acupuncture is inaccurate, please feel free to point it out. However, the story is set in another world, so the female lead's acupuncture sometimes has exaggerated effects.

[Upcoming Story: Black Moonlight Tries to Win Over Her Heartless Dao Master]

Yuan Jin falls in love with someone, but there are two problems.

First, that person is her master, who treats her like his own daughter.

Second, her master cultivates the Heartless Sword Path and has already reached Great Ascension.

As a proper disciple, Yuan Jin should have buried this unspeakable affection deep in her heart and helped her master ascend to immortality. Besides, he had done her a kindness, and she ought to repay him.

Instead, she repays his kindness with betrayal, ties him up, drags him down from his altar, and does all manner of despicable things to him.

The world calls her a rebel against convention and an ungrateful wretch. Yuan Jin doesn't care.

She's a thoroughly wicked woman, after all.

Selfish and vicious, cunning and ruthless. She's also the black moonlight whom some destined hero wants to grind to dust or keep as a captive.

So when her master runs her through with his sword, she doesn't repent. Instead, she comes to hate him.

She hates his ruthlessness, his blindness, and the fact that he remains heartless no matter what.

So she plucks out her own thread of affection and destroys it completely, leaving no chance it could ever be restored.

But later, she sees the monster of iron hidden beneath her master's immortal-like appearance.

The monster crushes his own heart, his body covered in filthy blood. He laughs like a madman, yet carefully wipes his fingers clean, then takes the delicate red-bean sword tassel she threw away from his robes and holds it in his palm.

"A Jin, I repaired the sword tassel you broke."

Yuan Jin remains unmoved. She only feels sorry for him.

[Key Points]

1. This is a romance-focused story with some plot, and the male lead will have to win back his wife.

2. The female lead is genuinely a black moonlight: ruthless, unscrupulous, ambitious, and vengeful.

3. The male lead is Yun Qingbai.

4. I guarantee a happy ending for the female lead! A happy ending for the female lead!

Theme: Perseverance