Only You Are My Verdant Hills

*Also known as Reborn: How Did I Become the Ancestor?!

*Academy-style cultivation ensemble; one-sided widower literature

*Strong heroine, everyone's favorite

"There are three kinds of swords: the commoner's sword, the lords' sword, and the Son of Heaven's sword.

A sword brandished in the streets to provoke and attack is the commoner's sword.

A sword whose edge is knowledge and courage, whose blade is integrity, whose spine is virtue, whose hilt is loyalty and holiness, and whose guards are valor is the lords' sword.

A sword whose edge is the Nine Provinces and whose blade is the mountains and seas, which encompasses the Four Barbarians and the four seasons, governs the Five Elements, weighs punishment and virtue, opens Yin and Yang, and brings forth autumn and winter, is raised above all and lowered beneath none. That is the Son of Heaven's sword.

Would you be willing to become the Son of Heaven's sword?"

"No. Because there's a fourth kind of sword in this world. This sword can reveal one's heart and bring comfort through life. In times of danger, it can be entrusted with one's life. It can share a passion for justice and is drawn only when the heart commands.

That is the sword of me, Zhou Qingya."

Plot blurb:

Zhou Qingya, the greatest sword cultivator, was poisoned. Finding life dull, she fought against the Heavenly Dao and vanished in Shentang Valley.

Five years later, someone summoned her with a talisman. The person who summoned her... Hm? How could it be a little kid?

The kid was certain she was the ancestor of their sect.

Zhou Qingya: Let me see... A down-and-out sect with only three people?

By a stroke of luck, she killed an evil dragon, entered Qianji Academy, and met some strange friends.

It couldn't be helped. Even the greatest sword cultivator had to take good care of the kids.

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But after she'd been gone for a few years, why was the cultivation world pinning every bit of blame on her? She'd become a notorious female demon in everyone's eyes?

Rumor had it she killed the beloved daughter of the Palace Master of Huangqi Palace.

Zhou Qingya: Who? Never heard of her.

Rumor had it she stole the treasured relic of Wuxiang Temple.

Zhou Qingya: What? Never seen it.

Her disciple's grand-disciple, Cheng Sifang: So you're saying, Great-Grandmaster, you've been framed. You're actually kindhearted, helpful, and loved by everyone. Flowers bloom when they see you.

Zhou Qingya: Ahem, that's not exactly true. I once had a sworn enemy.

Cheng Sifang: So did you kill one of his people this time, or steal something from him?

Zhou Qingya (guiltily): I did some... very intimate things with him.

A mountain of personal worldbuilding:

1. Nine cultivation realms: Realm One, Qi Drawing; Realm Two, Illumination; Realm Three, Embracing Simplicity; Realm Four, Grotto Heaven; Realm Five, Deification; Realm Six, Tribulation Crossing; Realm Seven, Mirror Mystery; Realm Eight, Sage; Realm Nine, Eternal Life.

2. Realms Seven and below are each divided into three minor stages: upper, middle, and lower. The heroine is at the upper stage of Realm Seven.

3. The blurb is based on Zhuangzi's Treatise on Swords.

---Coming Soon: Hired the Greatest Sword Cultivator to Tutor Me. A sunny, untalented girl who never stops striving x the self-important, penniless greatest sword cultivator

Theme: Give everyone a home