[This story was added to the author's lifetime to-do list on May 11, 2023]
Mu Rongyao's rise to become the new master of Lingxiao Palace, the foremost immortal sect, was far from honorable.
People said he was lowborn, mediocre in talent, weak in cultivation, and guilty of murdering his master and betraying his ancestors: a lowlife who had risen to power overnight.
And they were right.
At his accession ceremony, in front of the many immortal sects who had come under the pretext of attending the ceremony but were really there to make trouble, he spoke without sugarcoating it: "I, Mu Rongyao, don't believe in birth, fate, or destiny. I will stand at the very pinnacle of the cultivation world, wielding power vast as the heavens and the sharpest divine weapon."
The whole hall burst into laughter.
What no one expected was that three months later, he really did find the sharpest divine weapon.
There was just one small problem: his divine weapon was a person.
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Lan Caiwei died the year she came of age.
The man who tried to save her failed to keep her alive. He turned her into a medicine puppet, leaving her in the world forever, neither alive nor dead.
He gave her a beautiful body, with skin like ice and bones as cold as death.
He was her master for three years and taught her the highest level of cultivation in the world.
He even stirred her frozen heart to love.
But he never taught her that there were bonds in this world far deeper than a master's bond with a disciple, or the love between a man and a woman.
Not until she became Mu Rongyao's divine weapon.
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Long afterward, as Lan Caiwei sat in the seat of honor in Lingxiao Palace's magnificent main hall, she would always think of the snowy night when she killed her master.
At the time, Mu Rongyao was kneeling before her, holding her pale, luminous calf, marked with the divine weapon seal, and pressing a kiss to it.
"I won't love you. I never will."
"But as long as you remain as powerful as you are today, invincible and at my disposal, I will share everything I have in this life with you: power, wealth, fame, and influence."
"I am your master. I will never betray you."
[Click to watch the divine weapon tame its master]
1. The divine weapon seal can be branded onto anything that isn't alive, including the female lead, who is an undead person.
2. A human-shaped weapon and medicine puppet female lead, and a refined, self-serving male lead with low martial skill, low defense, low damage, and low burst. A story of killing their way through everything...
3. The male lead is not the love interest. The romance is between master and disciple, with an open ending.
4. This really is a strange one.
Theme: A sincere heart is useless
