I asked the Nine Immortals, and they rejected the settings for this one and the one next door. I'm not updating this one this year. I'll ask again next year. (Tears)
[Synopsis] Rewritten and reposted with the protagonist's name changed.
Spiritual energy dried up long ago, but in recent years it has shown signs of returning, and cultivators have started appearing all over the country.
Chen Yi had just come of age and hadn't even submitted her college applications when, for no apparent reason, she was chosen to be the "crown prince's study companion" and enrolled in Huaxia's top cultivation university.
She had been the least promising kind of cultivator, with only a single Wood attribute. But overnight, Chen Yi rose from the half-grade rank to the third rank, surpassing every other freshman. On the day of the entrance exams, she wielded a giant tree with her bare hands, built a stairway to heaven with vines, soared through the skies, and crushed every opponent in her grade, silencing everyone who had mocked her as a useless nepotism hire.
Chen Yi had no idea why she had become so powerful. It wasn't until the university organized a visit to the Wanan Dreamless Pavilion, where Chen Yi entered with the school leaders as the freshman representative, that a flash of blue light filled the pavilion and wondrous signs appeared in the heavens and on earth.
Everything that had been sealed away there returned to her, and at last Chen Yi remembered it all.
She wasn't an ordinary orphan from a branch of the "crown prince's" family, and her admission to Huaxiu hadn't been a lucky break. Everything had been arranged by her.
She was the foremost of the gods, Spring.
The Kunlun Mirror had glimpsed a sudden decline in humanity's fortune, threatening the survival of civilization itself. Chen Yi led a group of gods down the path of reincarnation and into the human world to investigate.
To be reborn as mortals, they had to seal away their memories and abandon their divine powers. So Chen Yi locked everything away inside the Dreamless Pavilion. The moment she returned to the pavilion, the gears she had set in motion decades earlier finally began to turn.
Since gods weren't allowed to meddle in mortal affairs, Chen Yi and the other gods played dumb and pretended they were still ordinary people.
As spiritual qi revival spread, more and more ordinary people began cultivating. Strange phenomena occurred again and again, making it harder and harder to conceal the existence of the gods. Cultivators came to them in wave after wave.
Believers: Gods, please grant us your power!
Chen Yi, stroking the dragon's head hidden under the table: I'm really just an ordinary person!
Also known as: How gods insist they're ordinary even after being exposed.
[Reading Guide]
1. The story is entirely fictional. The setting serves the plot and draws on reference materials.
2. Set in a future world with advanced technology and spiritual qi revival.
3. The female lead is the strongest. No power balancing.
4. Rewritten from scratch, with a completely different plot. Drafting in progress.
Theme: Start helping others with yourself
I feel like these names are a bit hard to pronounce 😂