Don't Be Such a Tryhard, I'm Just a Demon Realm Spy

A shocking scandal has recently rocked the cultivation world: Jiang Tinglan, young master of the Xuantian Sect, has been forced into a life-and-death bond with an unknown female disciple of his sect.

Who is Jiang Tinglan? He formed his core at ten and reached the Nascent Soul stage at fifteen, only to have his meridians completely shattered at the height of his glory. Now he coughs up blood every few steps and needs a wheelchair after just a few more.

The male cultivators feel sorry for the girl, who will spend her whole life tied to a sickly man. The female cultivators are envious: spending every day with the most handsome man under heaven sounds like bliss.

Ye Guannan, the heroine of this scandal, has one thing to say: "Pah! If you think this is such a blessing, why don't you take it?"

They share life and death, and cannot be more than ten paces apart.

Ye Guannan stares at the contract marking on her wrist, ready to kill someone. She is a proud undercover agent in the demon realm, tasked with restoring its former glory, and now she's stuck acting as a walking crutch for the precious darling of an enemy sect!

There are ways to break the contract: either combine dual cultivation with spiritual cultivation, or reach the Great Ascension stage.

With all the Xuantian Sect elders watching her like hawks, Ye Guannan thinks, No, thank you. I can't lay a finger on their precious treasure.

The second option becomes her only way out. For the sake of the demon realm's cause, Ye Guannan, who has practiced demonic energy since childhood, is forced onto the path of cultivating spiritual energy and striving for the Great Ascension stage, becoming a total grind-machine.

One day, her secret identity is exposed.

As the ninth tribulation bolt comes crashing down, a long sword tears through the formation. The young sect master, who had seemed too frail to stand, pulls her into his arms with one hand, and his sword energy cleaves the life-and-death contract in two.

"You were faking being sick?!" Ye Guannan stares at the man, whose Great Ascension aura has instantly returned.

Jiang Tinglan dodges her question and gently wipes the blood from her lips. "This isn't where you belong. Go back to where you came from."

Theme: Be self-reliant