Ninety Years of Compulsory Cultivation

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[Chapter comments are open, friendly discussion welcome. My interstellar supernatural-action novel, Interstellar Express: Mission Accomplished, is currently updating! The preview for my upcoming novel, Resurrection in Progress, is at the bottom. Don't miss it~]

[Blurb]

[1] The short version

Eighteen-year-old Fu Lingnian had just started university when she transmigrated and became Er Ya, a girl raised on the kindness of neighbors. Just as she finally became an outer disciple of the Kunlun Sect, she got bound to a System called [Ninety Years of Compulsory Cultivation], which claimed it would help her cultivate in a well-rounded way, morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and through labor.

They say sword cultivation impoverishes three generations, while alchemy ruins a lifetime. What if you practice swordsmanship, make pills, and draw talismans all at once?

Fu Lingnian, a sword cultivator with one hand on an alchemy furnace and the other holding a spirit talisman, had tears in her eyes. "Life isn't easy. You have to be versatile."

[2] The heroine's perspective

With the System's "kind" (threatening) "suggestions" (bribes), Fu Lingnian worked hard to pass the sect's assessment and shamelessly wormed her way into the legendary first peak of the sect, Aoyue Peak.

Yet all that awaited her was a declining sect, a master who slacked off, a disabled martial uncle, an empty purse, a brutal System, and a bewildered Er Ya.

Fu Lingnian: ?

You call this the sect's first peak?

[It really was the sect's first peak back when the old peak master hadn't ascended, Immortal Zun Wangyue wasn't disabled, Immortal Zun Yingyue wasn't dead, and they still had money,] the System said.

Fu Lingnian: So the version is out of date.

What else could she do? She'd just have to grit her teeth and keep being Aoyue Peak's personal disciple.

Immortal weapons and secret manuals? Snag them! Fortuitous encounters in secret realms? Charge in! Fighting to revive the sect is our duty!

But why did she find a wild little martial uncle in a secret realm?

[3] The male lead's perspective

Throughout the four realms and eight wildernesses, who hasn't heard that one sword strike from Wangyue can move mountains and rivers?

A prodigy since youth, peerless in talent, unmatched in the world.

Once upon a time, he was a genius among ten thousand, with a bright future ahead.

Now, he woke from nightmares again and again, unable to forget that blood-red land.

On that land, he witnessed his fellow disciples die. On that land, his Dao heart shattered, and he could never stand again.

Pei Zhixu built himself a prison. Perhaps he was destined to march toward his ruin in chains.

But one day, a girl fell from the sky, broke through his prison, and pulled him out of the mire.

"You aren't a sinner left behind by the war. You're the bright moon that illuminates the night," the girl said.

She fought for all living things. He lived to protect her.

[A once-brilliant genius, gentle on the surface but with a self-destructive streak x an eccentric, all-around sword cultivator girl who plays dumb while hiding her abilities]

Reader's guide:

◎ Plot-focused, not a typical System novel. Includes cultivation and cosmic horror elements. A little ensemble cast (note: there are quite a few supporting characters, and some will get significant attention!)

◎ Beautiful, strong, tragic male lead; one-on-one romance, a light romance plot, and the male lead is more of a background character

◎ The heroine isn't overpowered from the start. She needs time to grow

◎ I'm not very experienced as an author. If you like it, please add it to your collection! Feel free to point out mistakes and discuss them in a friendly way!

◎ I'm a relentless reviser. Don't blame me for any past history of unauthorized reposting

◎ More to come if I think of anything

[Ongoing novel: Interstellar Express: Mission Accomplished]

[An interstellar advertisement]

In this age of dazzling stars, starships cross the cosmos, space jumps are routine, and supernatural abilities run rampant. The delivery profession, once carried out by "people," has long since been taken over by AI and machines.

And yet, in this very age, He Ran rides her little yellow bike all across the stars.

First delivery: In a lawless star system, the sender died before they could even meet. With no other choice, she had to transport the package along with the corpse.

Second delivery: Good news, the sender was alive. Bad news, she had to transport a young master who seemed to have been kidnapped while being pursued, for reasons unknown.

Nth delivery: Passing by the Interstellar Military Academy League, she saw the recipient about to be beaten to death. Forced to step in, He Ran pounded a ferocious, S-rank dark creature to death right under the eyes of a crowd of big shots and interstellar viewers.

After the third incident, He Ran had no choice but to add a few lines to her delivery ad.

1. No dead people

2. No transporting live people

3. No helping with fights

4. All the above rules are void if you pay extra

[A classified wanted notice]

Name: He Ran (*)

Sex: Female

Identity: Unemployed interstellar drifter, self-proclaimed interstellar courier

Ability: Acting (*)

Mental power level: S (*)

Reason for wanted status:

Suspected leader of an anti-Federation organization.

(Added in New Star Calendar @* year) Similarity to Major @&*% exceeds %**#. If identity is confirmed, she will be charged with desertion.

(Added in New Star Calendar #& year) Suspected remnant of the &*@ model, extremely valuable for research. Anyone concealing her will be killed without exception.

Threat level: Extreme. Approach with caution.

[Upcoming novel: Resurrection in Progress]

Jiang Changle died. She'd been dead for a very long time, so long she couldn't remember how long.

Before her body decomposed, someone refined her into a jiangshi. From then on, she would never decay.

Jiang Changle was a jiangshi who liked to do nothing. She lay in her coffin for who knew how many years.

When she woke again, the world had changed beyond recognition. Jiang Changle pushed open the coffin and found that the carefully chosen auspicious burial site was now completely unrecognizable.

Rotten people like her walked across a dark red ground with an oddly springy texture.

Humans in strange clothes dragged her along as they ran, chattering in a language she couldn't understand.

Later, Jiang Changle found out what had happened.

She'd slept for a thousand years. A zombie virus had broken out, and humanity was on the brink of extinction.

To save all of humanity, people with supernatural abilities would unite to search for a possible "cure."

A "cure" that could turn zombies back into humans.

Perhaps also a "cure" that could bring Jiang Changle back to life as a human.

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A short scene:

People with supernatural abilities gathered in the safe zone, and refugees sought shelter.

To stay in the safe zone, everyone had to contribute something. They could go out and exterminate zombies, or assist from within.

The person in charge of registration eyed the "old, young, sick, and disabled" team before asking again, trying to be responsible: "So you're saying all of you want to join the extermination squad?"

The old lady, missing two teeth, nodded.

The high schoolers, still childish, nodded.

Jiang Changle, pale-faced, nodded and nudged the person beside her.

The deaf man slowly nodded.

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In short:

The main cast includes an armed old lady, high schoolers with all kinds of skills, a zombie heroine who looks weak, pitiful, and helpless, and a deaf, nurturing man who knows a little martial arts.

It's more or less a story about high schoolers busy saving the world and a heroine busy trying to come back to life.

Theme: Life isn't easy. Be versatile, and never give up!