The Immortal Venerable's Baby Goes Viral Across the Stars

(I gave up on this story before because I thought I couldn't write it well, but some readers wanted to read it, so I'm putting it up as a pre-release after all. I might write it someday.)

Yun Xing, the greatest genius of the immortal path, has been able to sense the Heavenly Dao since birth. While cultivation is difficult for others, every breath she takes is cultivation. Though only a little girl, she has already reached the pinnacle.

The venerable immortal master treated this final disciple as his own child. Before ascending, he left an immortal decree appointing Yun Xing as the next sect leader and entrusted eight elders with protecting her until she came of age.

The old sect leader ascended, and Yun Xing went into seclusion right after. She stayed there, never to emerge.

Tens of thousands of years later.

Yun Xing, who felt as though she'd only taken a nap, stretched and walked out of her cave. Then she discovered that her immortal mountain had become a ruin, and the things flying in the sky weren't immortal cranes, but mechs.

Eight-year-old Yun Xing: "???"

The eight elders had vanished, but in the interstellar era there were eight mysterious clans that people dared not speak of. It was said that these eight clans, whose power and wealth were beyond measure, had been searching for someone for hundreds and thousands of years.

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Having slept too long and fallen behind the times, little Yun Xing looked at Blue Star, now a high-risk, abandoned planet, and fell into deep thought. She decided to restore her sect!

A sect can't be without immortal plants. She pulled up a whole patch of S-rank poisonous, murderous vines and built a greenhouse for spiritual fields.

A sect can't be without immortal beasts. She caught a few terrifying, mutated beasts and put them in the spirit beast enclosure to see if she could keep them alive.

A sect can't be without disciples. The interstellar pirates and rebel commanders who had fled to the high-risk abandoned planet were in good shape and looked like suitable servants for the sect. She'd consider promoting them to outer disciples after they passed the immortal examination.

After all that hard work, the sect finally began to take shape!

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The Federation's latest competition between its three major military academies was nearing its end. For the final trial planet, the organizers chose Blue Star, a high-risk S-rank wasteland where poisonous vegetation covered 60% of the surface and there were 300 kinds of mutated beasts.

As soon as the military academy students entered Blue Star, the terrifying mutated beasts and poisonous plants everywhere put them on high alert, forcing them to split up.

A team from the Imperial Military Academy accidentally encountered an A-rank gluttonous beast. Just as they were on the brink of death, a little girl in strange, ragged clothes suddenly appeared.

She reached out and grabbed the gluttonous beast by the scruff of its neck.

The gluttonous beast whimpered, slowly lay down, rubbed its head against the girl's palm, and trembled all over.

Imperial Military Academy students: "?"

Viewers across the internet: "?"

A team from the First Alliance Military Academy was crossing the Thousand-Foot River when more than a dozen B-rank devilfish surrounded and pursued them. They were drenched in sweat and on the verge of death when the same little girl in strange, ragged clothes appeared again.

She rummaged through her basket and pulled out a fish spear.

The devilfish froze, then performed a whole string of carp-leaping-over-the-dragon-gate stunts before swimming away in an orderly line, not daring to look back.

First Alliance Military Academy students: "??"

Viewers across the internet: "??"

A team from Central Military Academy was crossing the perilous forest when they accidentally entered a circle of A-rank man-eating flowers. Out of ammunition and supplies, with nowhere to run, they saw the same little girl in ragged clothes again...

She carried a flower basket, hummed a nursery rhyme, carefully chose her flowers, and started picking them.

The man-eating flowers were cautious and quietly exuded a fragrant scent, swaying gracefully in the breeze as if to curry favor.

Central Military Academy students: "???"

Viewers across the internet: "???"

No, what is going on here?

Who is this kid? What is she doing? And those human-shaped laborers who flashed across the livestream, digging up the ground and shoveling mutated beast poop and pee... aren't they some of the most wanted fugitives on the Federation's bounty list?!

Theme: Be happy.