You Can't Hand the Sect Over to an Idiot

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Tianyi Sect is a formidable force in the cultivation world.

It brings together a tiger who guards the mountain, an eagle with far-reaching vision, and a wolf who excels in battle.

But its four disciples are all a little strange.

The eldest senior sister, Situ Lang, cultivates the Heartless Dao.

Her soul is forged from ice and snow, and blue silk wraps around her eyes. She has been in seclusion for many years, her cultivation powerful enough to hold down the mountain.

Unfortunately, she finds people annoying and acts mute whenever she goes out.

The second senior brother is peerlessly handsome, a passionate swordsman.

Unfortunately, he's neurotic and starts bickering with people at the drop of a hat.

The third senior brother is unrivaled in spellcraft, the best in the world.

Unfortunately, he's stiff and dull, lost in his own world, and all he can do when something happens is chuckle stupidly.

The junior sister can actually communicate with people normally, but she's kind as a bodhisattva on the outside and a venomous snake within. The moment she sees someone who's better than her, she starts spiraling and competing obsessively. She's a certified number-one-obsessed maniac.

Tianyi Sect only produces first place winners.

Until one day, a rift in time and space from seven hundred years in the future unexpectedly opened, sending a ten-year-old child through.

As soon as the child arrived, she threw herself at the Heartless Dao senior sister. "Mother!"

Everyone's jaws dropped.

But tests soon proved that the child really was the senior sister's bloodline. She was the sect's sole heir from the future.

So these senior brothers and sisters, who had always taken first place, began doing everything in their power to cultivate, teach, and raise the child.

Only, this unlucky kid was

mediocre at everything she tried.

She studied every subject, and did poorly in every one.

She came last in every class.

After coming in last on an exam, the child cheerfully insisted, "But I'm really the sect's heir!"

Everyone thought in despair:

We're doomed. We're going to hand our sect over to an idiot.

Absolutely not!

A little scene

The senior sister held out a newly developed sect medicine that was supposedly supposed to make the child smarter. She fed it to her, looking forlorn.

"My child, I keep forgetting to ask: which unimportant person was your father again?"

The child replied, "You call Father an idiot every day, so I forgot his name too."

The sect members, eavesdropping: This is tricky. There must be plenty of people the senior sister thinks are idiots.

But no one else has ever been called one right to their face.

He must really be an idiot.

Another day...

The contest to determine the greatest swordsman of the Three Realms.

The young lord of the Demon Realm lost to the senior sister.

Her sword cut off a lock of his hair, and peach blossoms filled the branches.

Beneath her sword, the young lord asked how he could defeat her.

Wiping her sword, the senior sister was in a rare good mood and teased him:

"Cultivation begins with cultivating the heart. My sect has blue immortal flowers, and only when one has spent a whole day watering them can one's Dao heart be complete. I don't think you have that kind of sincerity."

So the young lord of the Demon Realm disguised himself and came to the foot of Tianyi Sect's mountain every day.

He plowed the fields and watered them.

He greeted the senior sister every day, cooked breakfast, and paid his spirit stones.

He devoutly hoped to turn a hundred mu of pumpkin seedlings into blue immortal flowers.

The senior sister looked at the demon.

Beneath her blue silk blindfold, her thin lips suddenly curved in a smile, as if the snow on an icy mountain had melted.

"So stupid."

The others hid behind a tree, watching the demon work the fields.

The junior sister: Could that be the demon's child?

The second senior brother: Definitely. Why else would he be so stupid?

But demons are the immortal sects' mortal enemies.

Everyone understood.

An enemy.

An enemy who wants an idiot to inherit the sect, so our sect will be destroyed.

What a vicious trick!

Absolutely not!

We cannot hand our sect over to an idiot!

Enjoy the story, everyone. The most important thing is to have fun.

Ensemble cast. Lighthearted daily life. Raising a child, leveling up, and romance.

★★★

My next upcoming story, Our Sect Doesn't Keep Idle People, teaser:

Sikong Lan is the founding ancestor of Qunxian Sect, a legendary figure in the cultivation world, renowned for her peerless mastery of spells.

She recently broke up with her exceptionally beautiful, extremely jealous Daoist partner.

But she still has four children... No, four disciples to raise.

The eldest is a cat demon, fluffy but strong, and she just plucked every last hair from the beard of the patriarch on the neighboring mountain.

The second is a succubus, sweet and playful but a dark-hearted yandere. She just tied up the young master of the Medicine Sect in a cave and had her way with him.

The third is a mermaid, seemingly delicate but actually vicious and greedy. She just cleared out the Immortal Alliance's back garden to turn it into her fishpond.

The fourth is at least a normal person. He may be a bit dim, but he's warmhearted. However, he's hit his rebellious phase and insists on switching majors to become a demonic cultivator, whether it kills him or not.

After her breakup, Sikong Lan briefly left the sect in the care of her former partner.

But in less than three days, they were drowned in an anonymous challenge letter from the eldest disciple, a hundred marriage proposals from the second, a bill for the third disciple's debts, and the youngest disciple's failing report card.

Her former partner sent a message in the middle of the night, sobbing: "My dear, I really can't manage them. Let's get back together, please!"

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Second senior sister's couple:

Song Yin is a succubus, sweet and beautiful. She likes to kidnap young cultivators, but thinks they're not handsome enough and can't be bothered to take their yang essence.

Until she kidnapped Helan Tan, and finally got to live the life of a succubus who feasts to her heart's content.

Helan Tan is the young master of the Medicine Sect, exceptionally talented, arrogant, and conceited. When he met Song Yin, he pretended to fall for her, while secretly plotting to make a Bewitchment-Breaking Pill that could counter succubi.

Every time he couldn't suppress his desire to see Song Yin, every time he got jealous of the admirers around her, and every time his possessiveness made him want her to give him a proper title, he told himself it was all the succubus's tricks. It would all be fine once he made the pill.

He was only pretending to be infatuated. He had a plan of his own.

But after all that effort, the pill had no effect at all.

He trembled in despair. His pill had failed.

Song Yin leaned closer. "Break the enchantment? You'd have to be enchanted first, wouldn't you?"

She hugged his arm and blinked. "But I never used any bewitching spells on you."

Helan Tan: "..."

Oh no! He thought he was the one pretending to be in love, but that love at first sight was genuine.

A little scene

Question: Why are the four disciples so determined to be themselves and cause so much trouble?

Everyone raised their arms and shouted: "It's all to get our master and our master's partner back together!"

Master's couple: A heroine who can do anything x a beautiful, scheming green-tea pretty boy who makes a devoted husband. An old married couple who have survived life and death together, bickering over little things.

Second disciple's couple: A mischievous succubus x a young master who willingly falls into her trap. The sweet girl gets everything she wants. Pretended affection turns into real love.

Ensemble cast. Lighthearted daily life. Everyone gets plenty of scenes, taking turns as the main character. The second disciple's couple gets especially many scenes.

The heroine has transmigrated, so there are lots of modern expressions. The others in her sect have picked up some modern expressions too.

Theme: Strive to grow.