Can I Be Your Ancestor?

Nirao was on the verge of ascending when someone ambushed her during her tribulation, killing her and sending her back to the mortal realm. She became a lone cultivator with no sect, forced to start over.

Desperate to build up her strength and find out who had ambushed her, Nirao reluctantly joined the Demonic Sect, which she'd once looked down on, hoping to take a shortcut by following their methods of cultivation.

On her very first day, she was chosen to be Demon Venerable Xu Yuan's punching bag, and promptly became his number-one punching bag.

Nirao: ... Thanks for appreciating me.

With the scraps of spiritual energy and money that trickled through Xu Yuan's fingers, her cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds.

But in the end, she hit a wall at the Nascent Soul stage.

Only after searching through countless ancient texts did she finally find a cure. Those gravely injured by a tribulation needed to find their descendants and be venerated as an ancestor for eighty-one days to recover completely.

Nirao was stumped. She was a princess of a fallen kingdom, so surely her descendants had all been slaughtered.

So she searched and searched...

Then, to her surprise, she discovered that Xu Yuan was the posthumous son of her distant cousin's sister-in-law's younger brother.

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Xu Yuan grew fonder and fonder of his punching bag. He treasured her more with every passing day, and couldn't bear to use her for cultivation. All he wanted was to dote on her, comfort her, and make her happy.

His subordinates told him this meant he'd fallen for her, and that he ought to marry his punching bag and make her the Demon Queen. Then they could snuggle under the same covers and enjoy a blissful life together.

Xu Yuan clapped his hands. They had a point! He sent people across the world to find rare treasures so he could marry the woman he loved.

Then one day, the woman he loved, who was always out from dawn until dusk, completely absorbed in her cultivation, came running back to him in high spirits and asked:

"Um, can I be your ancestor?"

Theme: Use your own abilities to overcome difficulties