Is This Really How You Test a Sword Cultivator?

A stunning, aloof sword cultivator who follows the ruthless path and has seniority over everyone x the lowest-ranking young master of a dual-cultivation sect, who is a devoted, principled gentleman

1.

After being born into this world, Zhong Fuyu finally awakened his System at the age of twenty.

As the most senior grand-uncle of the Sword Sect, he discovered that the world he lived in was made up of countless storybooks.

The stern and proper sect master of the Beast Taming Sect, the gentle Valley Master of the Spirit Medicine Valley, the spoiled young prince of the demon tribe... All his old friends and fellow sect leaders were protagonists.

Every one of them had stubbornly cultivated the Ruthless Path.

Then, after finding true love, they had shattered their Dao hearts and switched to another path.

Zhong Fuyu was sweating bullets.

So the sects they worked with had all secretly switched paths long ago, while the Sword Sect was the only one still struggling to keep the old ways alive.

2.

Which path allows dual cultivation?

The Ruthless Path of the Sword Cultivators is the first one to rule out.

Get up earlier than a chicken and go to bed later than a dog: that was the Sword Sect's motto.

Singles were everywhere, and inner demons lurked on every corner: that was the Sword Sect's reality.

And the failure rate for the Ruthless Path currently stood at one hundred percent.

Zhong Fuyu: ...The sect's future is bleak. How delightfully cool.

Zhong Fuyu, the most senior and longest-serving grand-uncle of the entire sect, smiled faintly and promptly brought the Dual Cultivation Sect Master in to collaborate. They founded an academy together and arranged for their disciples to visit and study at each other's sects.

The stubborn Ruthless Path disciples scoffed. "Is this how an elder tests a sword cultivator? My Dao heart is unbreakable!"

A year later: "Thank you, Elder, for bringing us together. We're a couple now."

The year after dual cultivation was restored and "puppy love" was no longer forbidden, the Sword Sect's rate of finding partners and the Dual Cultivation Sect's rate of advancement soared together.

3.

Zhong Fuyu breathed a sigh of relief and decided to keep implementing his matchmaking assistance policy. Then he found a troublemaker

Young Master of the Dual Cultivation Sect, last place in every exam, Yu Zhou: Brother Zhong, I've learned a new technique, &*#@... Why don't we test it out together?

The little young master, who had aced the theory classes but scored zero in practicals, was once again working hard on his graduation project.

Zhong Fuyu, treated like a graduation project, held his lower back. "Get lost."

A two-day weekend is a two-day weekend, not a dual-cultivation weekend :)

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1. The receiver is a fake ice mountain, but a stunning beauty and a peak sword cultivator.

2. The giver is a crazy, lovesick puppy. He's relentless in pursuing his crush, but his intelligence is questionable.

3. Younger male lead, both leads are completely devoted to each other in body and mind, with strong mutual feelings, 1v1.

4. The male lead is really, really, really eccentric and lovesick. He's the kind of gentleman who'll groom himself to please his wife. Since he's in the Dual Cultivation Sect, he has to keep his most important asset in good shape.

5. A lighthearted cultivation story. I'll write whatever comes to mind.

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