This novel was originally titled Awakening the Spirit.
A preview of the upcoming xianxia novel After the Heartless Sword Is Bound to a Devoted System appears at the end. Please add it to your collection!
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Blurb:
When Wu Zhao brought back the boy from her vision, the one who would destroy the world after her death, she thought: I must save the people, and I must save him, too.
She chose a name for him and carefully taught him.
She said, "To give everything for the people of the Three Realms is the fate of a god."
Then she sacrificed herself to the Dao, sealed the Demon God, and perished, her soul scattered beyond recovery.
She said, "From today onward, you are the last inheritor of the Spirit Clan."
/Consider it my way of keeping watch over the people of the Three Realms./
The boy did as she had hoped. He neither destroyed the world nor died alongside her.
He became the last god between heaven and earth, saving the people as she had asked.
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On the day Wu Zhao was reborn, she received a new name: Jiang Li.
The people still had to be saved, and she still had to die. That was fine.
The trouble was that, back then, she had thought she would never see the boy again and had said all sorts of outrageous things to him.
Before she could regret it, she was brought before him.
The boy smiled bitterly, as if he wanted to blame her but couldn't bear to. "Sister, do you still remember me?"
Reading Guide:
1. The heroine is called Wu Zhao when she is a goddess and Jiang Li after being reborn. Neither lead is perfect. The story is split between plot and romance; if that's not your thing, please don't read.
2. Not a traditional cultivation novel. More of an ensemble story centered on a strong female lead. The main couple gets a happy ending. Not a wish-fulfillment novel, and not a story where the male lead is even stronger than the female lead.
4. Spirit Awakening ranks, from lowest to highest: Realms One through Nine; above the Ninth Realm are Spirit Condensation, Spirit Fusion, Spirit Transformation, and Spirit Transcendence.
Blurb for After the Heartless Sword Is Bound to a Devoted System:
In her previous life, Xi Xun was born with a sword bone and dominated the Nine Provinces without ever suffering defeat.
The peerless Sword Venerable was reborn as a sickly good-for-nothing. Not only had she lost some of her memories, she was also bound to a devoted System.
The System threatened and tempted her: [Host, you have only one year of life left. Complete your courtship missions and you can truly be reborn, then ascend to immortality whenever you like~]
Xi Xun stared at the faint red thread appearing and disappearing on the little finger of her right hand. Only then did she remember that she had a love tribulation in which anyone who loved her would die.
She accepted it calmly. "What does courtship mean?"
The System racked its brains to explain to a heartless sword cultivator, born with little feeling for the seven emotions: [To the one pursuing them, a courtship target is like a sword cultivator's life-bound sword!]
Xi Xun considered this. A sword cultivator's life-bound sword never leaves their side, not even in death.
In her previous life, she herself was powerful, and so was her life-bound sword.
So, at the Sword Sect's disciple recruitment, several names long known as "good-for-nothings" appeared together at the very top of the rankings.
Hearing the sound of their favorability rising, Xi Xun understood.
Courtship was just helping other people become stronger!
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At the first Nine Provinces examination, the prodigies lost in utter bewilderment.
Wasn't the young master of the Medicine Sect supposed to be spoiled and useless, and Young Master Xie foolish and timid?
Then who was the one carrying a pill furnace in one hand and smashing people with it while refining pills with the other? And who was the one holding a broken umbrella that no one could pierce?
Even the notorious good-for-nothing Xi Xun had beaten every sword cultivator in the Nine Provinces without drawing her sword.
The most unscrupulous charlatan of the Empty Sect, the Poison Sect's young master, and the Buddhist Sect's saintess all followed close behind.
The System was so delighted it bounced around: [Congratulations, Host! Your courtship targets' favorability is about to reach the maximum!]
Xi Xun didn't answer. She raised her eyes toward the white-haired boy lounging on the high platform, calling her name.
When she responded, a complicated emotion she couldn't understand flickered in his captivating red eyes.
Xi Xun lowered her gaze. The red thread on her little finger flickered in and out.
The other end was wrapped around the boy's slender, pale wrist.
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Someone once read Xi Xun's fate: a star of calamity, doomed to bring misfortune to her family and friends, destined for a lonely life and no happy ending.
In her previous life, it had certainly been so.
But when she was once again at the brink of despair, her courtship targets all stood beside her.
Even though they were outmatched, not one of them stepped back.
Through the glint of blades and bloodshed, the boy looked at her and sighed softly.
In the next instant, the hand gripping Xi Xun's sword trembled for the first time. The boy seized the blade and drove it into his own heart.
The world seemed to fall silent. The System's announcement was the only thing she could hear:
[Hidden courtship target Chu Chengui has reached 100% favorability. Congratulations, Host, all courtship missions are complete!]
The boy's red eyes slowly dimmed, but the red thread did not disappear.
Sealed memories surged back like a tide. Holding the boy around his lean waist, Xi Xun gave a faint scoff, tightened her grip on the hilt, and slowly stood up.
Once, she had been powerless to protect herself. Once, she had looked down on the Nine Provinces.
Now, if she wished, she could ascend to immortality with a mere lift of her hand.
But she accepted it. This was her fate.
If she refused to accept it, then even Heaven's will would have to bend to her and be rewritten!
Theme: May even the faintest speck of dust contribute to the mountains and seas.
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