The Second-Generation Scion of the Cultivation World

[Coming Soon: The Tang Dynasty Half-Retirement Handbook / This Fairy Is Not Quite Proper, blurbs below~] [Main story complete, bonus chapters updating~] After graduating, Lu Zhu worked hard for three years. She had just paid off her student loans when she suddenly dropped dead at the office. She transmigrated to the cultivation world as a girl in a small family, about to turn eight. She had water and wood spiritual roots, was at the second level of Qi Refining, and had a bright future ahead of her. At first glance, everyone in the family seemed full of energy, the clan was thriving, and the place was bustling with life. Lu Zhu grinned. She was not only more than ten years younger, she was also a second-generation cultivator. This was a surefire chance to lie flat and win! * But after absorbing her memories, her smile slowly faded... Her older brother, supposedly out hunting beasts, had actually had his arm bitten off by a monster. He owed the Spirit Loan Pavilion a mountain of spirit stones and was waiting in line there for a pill so he could regrow his severed arm. Her older sister, supposedly in seclusion to cultivate, had actually gotten into a conflict with someone in her sect and damaged her foundation. She owed the Immortal Physician Pavilion a mountain of spirit stones for treatment and was working to repair her foundation. Her father, who seemed to come and go with the family members every day, was actually mining for the Spirit Loan Pavilion to pay off his debts. Her mother had just given birth to twins and was weak in bed, while the babies wailed hungrily. Once Lu Zhu had celebrated her eighth birthday, the Immortal Physician Pavilion would take her as collateral, brand her with a temporary servant's mark, and make her a menial disciple. * Lu Zhu burst into tears. So this was a family headed for financial ruin! Why were there loans in the cultivation world?! Her tears fell one by one, then suddenly turned into pearls. Lu Zhu: ?? * After she finished crying, a legacy memory belonging to a half-blood mermaid appeared in her mind. The legacy explained that the pearls she shed were inferior mermaid pearls, and that by devouring baleful energy, she could still improve her bloodline. At the Immortal Physician Pavilion, even the lowest-grade mermaid pearls cost one spirit stone each, while top-grade ones could sell for thousands. Lu Zhu: !!! * She roughly calculated her family's debts and perked up again. There was nothing a top-grade mermaid pearl couldn't solve! And if one wasn't enough, then two! What separates a family sunk in debt from the first generation of the rich? Just a little baleful energy! Lu Zhu was so delighted she could have laughed herself awake. That stuff could be found in every trade in the cultivation world, and everyone avoided it like the trash it was. #A chaotic family life in the cultivation world after transmigrating# #The cultivation world's best at recycling and reusing trash# #50% male-to-female ratio# The Tang Dynasty Half-Retirement Handbook blurb Gu Yu cleared the stages in an infinite-flow world, then transmigrated as Gu Yu, a young female constable in Chang'an County during the Tang Dynasty. She had been specially admitted to Chang'an County because her father had given his life in service to the imperial court. Timid and unintelligent, she only knew how to keep her head down and work. She had nearly been bullied into becoming a kitchen fire-tender. When Gu Yu arrived, she found herself in a bare-walled home, a hundred taels in debt, with a sickly younger brother to support. The original owner had died after falling while gathering herbs in the mountains for him. Yet Gu Yu couldn't have been more pleased with her situation. No more struggling for her life day and night. All she had to do was clock in each day, squat in the kitchen, and sneak a taste of the good food ahead of time while watching everyone else work themselves half to death over cases, fretting and tearing their hair out. Who could understand the joy of staying dry while everyone else got soaked? Home was even more comfortable. She could pet the dog and grow flowers, then secretly catch a few criminals to feed to her golden finger and raise her little brother. Perfect! This was the kind of retirement life she had never even dared to dream of... It would be even better if that jerk surnamed Zhao in Chang'an County would stop trying every possible way to expose her identity! Zhao Zheng, heir to the Duke of Lu's title, had to retire from the Imperial Bodyguard Corps because of a serious injury. The emperor, his maternal uncle, forced him into becoming the county magistrate of Chang'an County, where he had nothing to live for. On taking office, he was immediately faced with several difficult cases to solve, including a string of murders that had shocked Chang'an and a poisoning at an aristocrat's country estate. Outside the county, he also had to endure mockery from his former colleagues and scorn from his powerful relatives and friends... His motto was simple: no matter how much he thought it over, dying still seemed like the better option. But before he could decide which way to die would be least painful and cause his family the least trouble, the criminals from several cases were dumped at the Chang'an County yamen, evidence in hand. Zhao Zheng, on the brink of death, sat bolt upright. Wait, there was still hope for him! If he could find this brilliant detective and coax... no, pay tribute to him, then have him solve more cases, Zhao Zheng might be able to lie flat and enjoy a peaceful retirement in Chang'an County. Maybe life wasn't so bad after all! Fictional Tang Dynasty Sharp-tongued, reborn big shot * beautiful bootlicker who knows when to bend This Fairy Is Not Quite Proper blurb Yu Shanshan was a famous workaholic in the post-apocalyptic world. As long as working herself to death didn't kill her, she would keep pushing herself to the limit. To survive, she had forced her good-for-nothing light-type ability, which could only illuminate things, all the way to level nine, turning herself into a powerful figure renowned across the major human bases. Then their world was hit by a level-ten Zombie Emperor, who brought countless bases to ruin. Yu Shanshan: I'm tired. Let's just destroy the world. * After perishing along with the Zombie Emperor, she transmigrated to the cultivation world as an outer-sect disciple of the Yaoguang Sect on the cultivation continent. After nine years of cultivation, she had only reached the second level of Qi Refining. Worse, she had a fake five-element spiritual root, and if she couldn't break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining within another year, she would be expelled from the sect. Yu Shanshan immediately decided to lie flat. After pushing herself through countless challenges, all she wanted now was to be a happy little slacker. Once the sect expelled her, she would head to the mortal world and live freely. Her cultivation level would be more than enough in the mortal world. She would be content with a long life full of money and leisure. * Who could have guessed her ability would come along too? Other people only had a dantian, where cultivation could form a golden core. She had an extra mind domain, and inside it sat a huge, energy-depleted crystal core. Yu Shanshan: ...Fine. Even a faint light-type ability could make life more comfortable for a slacker lying flat. But to her surprise, every time her light-type ability leveled up, the crystal core in her mind illuminated the spiritual roots in her dantian, slowly increasing their purity. Heavens: From the most useless fake spiritual root to a top-tier Chaos Spiritual Root, ascension is just around the corner. Get to work! Yu Shanshan remained expressionless. She would never push herself like that again, not in this life or the next. But for a workaholic, there was only one way forward: keep grinding. A slacker, on the other hand, could lie flat in countless ways. Who says a slacker can't ascend? Theme: As long as you are willing to work hard, let your dreams take flight