Devoted to Cultivation, I Accidentally Entered the Insect World

Blurb: A little-known sect can be summed up simply: an absent master, junior disciples with plenty of quirks, and their overwhelmed senior brother, A Qilin. One night, on some date in some year, the junior disciples commandeer their senior brother's alchemy furnace to barbecue lamb skewers. Do lamb skewers roasted in a supreme treasure of the alchemy path, the Primordial Chaos Furnace, taste better? Not necessarily. But one thing is certain: with a tremendous boom, the Primordial Chaos Furnace gets "blown up" with rage, and the entire sect is sent flying, swept away in one blast. The motto is: no one gets to come here without paying a price. Nobody gets away unscathed! 1. Proud fallen fire phoenix x dark-skinned, broad-chested, nurturing insect dad [Sang Lie x Natan Gu] After a hundred years of cultivation, Sang Lie never imagined he would have to become an egg again. Becoming a round, foolish egg would have been bad enough... but then a one-armed hulk finds him and takes him home to incubate! What a disgrace. An utter disgrace. A tumbledown burrow, a bed that barely looks like a bed, a warm chest, the smell of blood mingled with a heavy milky scent: that's all Sang Lie can sense from inside the egg. At long last, he hatches, only to find they can't understand a word each other says. They have to communicate entirely through gestures. This is a vast desert of endless yellow sand, scorching sunlight, and utterly brutal living conditions. And yet this gentle giant takes wonderful care of Sang Lie, doing everything he can, hunting and nursing him, and giving him the very best of everything. Looking at the giant's missing arm and his weary yet gentle blue eyes, Sang Lie feels his sharp defenses soften. Little by little, the giant teaches Sang Lie to call him "Ci Fu." Since they don't speak the same language, Sang Lie assumes that's the giant's name and goes along with it. Only later does Sang Lie learn that he has been calling the giant "Dad" for a whole month. He turns green with rage. 2. Flirtatious, lecherous fox spirit x sickly, smiling tiger, Southern King [Li Er x Ai Weiyinsi] Everyone knows the South is a land of plenty, but its king, Ai Weiyinsi, is a king on the brink of death. Recently, Ai Weiyinsi has taken in a scarlet fox. The fox is like a ball of fire, nestling in the king's arms, its bushy tail wrapped around his pale, bony wrist. A beautiful person with power and status is naturally good in every way. Now that his end is near, his body is frail with illness, but he has lost none of his majesty. The soul of a king is imprisoned in a failing shell. The Southern King, Ai Weiyinsi, holds absolute power over life and death. Wolves and tigers surround him, coveting his position and hoping to tear him apart. A sickly king who won't live much longer and a city-state without an heir are bound to face unrest. So Ai Weiyinsi needs an insect egg. Seeing that the beauty is about to start "offering a fortune for a child," Li Er can't sit still. The candidates all look like a sorry lot, and he's afraid the sickly beauty might do something foolish. So he offers himself and climbs into Ai Weiyinsi's bed. And Ai Weiyinsi accepts him just like that. Afterward, Li Er stays in the South. Outside, he cons people as a fake fortune-teller, pocketing bribes without doing a thing. Inside, he luxuriates in the beauty's lap, where icy skin and jade bones bring endless pleasure. No joke, Li Er is so captivated by Ai Weiyinsi that he nearly forgets he's the fox spirit. 3. Compassionate, upright senior brother x disfigured, wheelchair-bound sub-female [A Qilin x Kafuliya] Once, A Qilin discovered that his hands-off master had a strange wooden door that could connect to another world. A Qilin once went looking for his master, but accidentally wandered into the Eastern Demon Cavern, where he came across a boy with beautiful pink eyes that stubbornly refused to close. The boy was covered in bruises and nearly died in a filthy pigsty. Grime covered his hair so thickly that it was almost impossible to tell it was pink. Taking pity on him, A Qilin took the boy away and healed his injuries. The boy loved clinging to A Qilin, like a kitten that had been hurt but still longed for human touch and warmth. After a while, A Qilin returned. He didn't belong there in the first place, but the boy was so pitiful that A Qilin had stayed for one winter. Later, the junior disciples dismantled their master's door for firewood, causing A Qilin's alchemy furnace to explode. Before one crisis could settle, another arose, and A Qilin once again arrived in another world. For him, only ten days had passed. But in the other world, ten years had gone by. The child had become the Demon Cavern's second-in-command, known as "Half-Faced Viper." His name was Kafuliya. In his wheelchair, Kafuliya has a pair of crippled legs. Beneath his black mask, half his face is horribly disfigured. He has done every evil deed imaginable, imprisoned A Qilin, ordered the pursuit of A Qilin's junior disciples, and gone mad with jealousy toward anyone who matters to A Qilin. His jealousy has driven him insane, and his resentment has warped his mind. But only Kafuliya knows that he waited alone in this endless Hell for ten whole years, day after day, month after month, year after year, until A Qilin finally appeared again. Once, Kafuliya longed desperately for A Qilin's love. Now, he hates A Qilin just as fiercely for not loving him. If he is destined never to have A Qilin's love, then hate will do just as well. Because hate runs deeper and lasts longer than love. 4. Cool and aloof snow lingzhi x assassin with touch starvation [Xue Lai x Wuxike] Lingzhi has no gender. Xue Lai doesn't want to cause trouble in this world, so he hides what he is and pretends to be a female insect. He never imagined that this would get him into even bigger trouble. Mistaken for his senior brother's lover, Xue Lai is marked for assassination. In the Demon Cavern, infamous for its assassins and sex trade, the top killer Wuxike comes after him. Wuxike's body contains poison. No one has been able to touch him since childhood; anyone who does dies. But Xue Lai has fought him dozens of times without suffering any harm. That fact excites Wuxike like a beast that has caught the scent of blood. Then Xue Lai notices that his pursuer has started brazenly showing up beside him and teasing him at every opportunity, as if he has touch starvation. What a clingy pest. No matter how hard Xue Lai tries to get rid of him, he won't leave. At first, he tries to assassinate Xue Lai. Then he says he wants to "be friends" and "doesn't mind a female-female relationship," while stalking him, drugging him, and resorting to every trick in the book. Xue Lai may be immune to every poison, but his patience has limits. He pins Wuxike down like a bug and gives him a thorough beating, hoping to teach him a lesson. But Xue Lai clearly forgets that someone like Wuxike only gets more excited when beaten, his face flushing with an almost demonic exhilaration. Wuxike lets out a low laugh, his eyes dark with madness. "That's it! Harder!" Xue Lai: ...I can't hit him. What if he enjoys it? 5. Sharp-tongued, prickly orca x hot-tempered, looks-obsessed Northern King [Mi Jing x E Nuo Shousi] The North is a barren, lifeless wasteland, buried in snow all year round. When Mi Jing first wakes up, he is offered to the king here as a slave. The barbarian king of the North, E Nuo Shousi, suffers from a condition that causes his body to become rigid and desperately needs the soothing touch of a high-ranking male insect. After one night of forced intimacy, Mi Jing and E Nuo Shousi spend all their time arguing and fighting. Neither of them is easy to deal with. When they really go at it, blood is drawn. They constantly get on each other's nerves. Later, a storm comes. Mi Jing tries to escape, but E Nuo Shousi catches up with him, furious. They are trapped in a blizzard and struck by a massive avalanche. E Nuo Shousi's wings are broken, and he loses consciousness from blood loss. Mi Jing is hardly in better shape. With death all but certain, Mi Jing has no choice but to accept his bad luck. He carries the ill-tempered king across the seemingly endless snowfield, going without sleep or rest for forty hours, before they finally make it back to the city-state. But when he returns, Mi Jing is met with chains and a cage, and E Nuo Shousi's relentless, day-and-night demands for sweaty, lustful sex. At last, when the second blizzard arrives, Mi Jing uses the chance to reach the Heart of the North Sea. When E Nuo Shousi proposes to him, Mi Jing turns and jumps straight into the freezing sea without hesitation, successfully making his escape. What Mi Jing doesn't know is that, at that very moment, the tyrant is pregnant... Reader Notice 1. The authorized version is available only on Jinjiang. I have never authorized any pirate sites to post it. All pirated copies infringe on my rights, and posting pirated copies on any website is illegal. 2. The leads are each other's only partners. 3. To be clear, my preferences are [top pursues and saves bottom]. The bottoms are beautiful, strong, and tragic, or handsome, strong, and tragic. If these aren't your preferences, don't force yourself to read. This may not suit readers with strong character preferences. 4. This is an imaginary setting unrelated to reality. Please don't apply real-world interpretations! The story is entirely fictional, so please don't apply it to reality! 5. The main characters transmigrate into their bodies. Theme: Love is something everyone can appreciate, highbrow or lowbrow.