An Expert in the Heartless Way, Facing Unemployment

Cultivation is hard, harder than climbing to the heavens.

The Heartless Way is harder still. In all these years, hardly anyone has managed to master it.

Bie Shanxue is a master of the Heartless Way, a great master, a truly peerless master.

She can soar through the skies on her sword, battle eagles and evil sea serpents, and even discipline unruly mountain strongholds with a blade. However...

However, after she became a master of the Heartless Way, her master sent her down the mountain to travel. To her despair, she discovered that the age of high technology had arrived. There were planes in the sky and aircraft carriers at sea. Progress was changing by the day, and peerless martial arts were useless now.

Bie Shanxue stayed optimistic. She figured she could become a fitness instructor, work as a martial arts consultant for film crews, or, failing that, help people catch mice. But AI was more useful than people, and nowadays, even chatting didn't require a human.

She was unemployed.

Bystander A: You're not as capable as a robot.

Bie Shanxue: I can fight.

Bystander B: You're not as cost-effective as a robot.

Bie Shanxue: I can fight.

Bystanders C and D: You're not as...

Bie Shanxue: (firmly) I can fight.

Being unemployed is fine. She can fight (puts away her sword).

#A laid-back heroine with an unwavering heart, never shaken#

#The senior disciple of the Heartless Way has never seen high technology, but is so unflappable she pretends to be invincible across the whole planet#

[Additional notes]

An embarrassing past

Not an all-female world

The Heartless Way / unreliable cultivation + absurdist sci-fi

[Please note] The main text has a lot of typos, but fixing them would trigger update notifications. Since the story is already complete, those notifications might bother everyone, so I'm leaving the typos as they are. (bows)

--- Upcoming story ---

"Return, O Soul"

[Reborn / Everyone goes back, but to different points in time]

After Elder Mu Yu, the sect's only hope of ascending, lost her physical body, the whole sect joined forces to summon her soul. They worked diligently for ten years, and finally managed to extinguish Mu Yu's Longevity Lamp.

The entire sect: "!!!"

Everyone was devastated and gave her a grand funeral.

When she opened her eyes, Mu Yu had returned to the day before she entered the immortal sect.

She had yet to embark on the path to immortality, a path with no return. She was still a good-for-nothing, born without a spiritual bone, starving in a home with nothing in it.

Mu Yu closed her eyes: I'll just die again.

But she couldn't close them.

She realized this world wasn't quite the same as the one in her previous life.

Recently, everyone noticed that the boy born without a spiritual bone had suddenly gone a little crazy. "Silent until he speaks, then he won't shut up." He seemed determined to turn the cultivation world upside down.

Sigh! What a surprise.

Elder, you sure were a handful when you were young.

Theme: Though we know the vastness of the universe, we still cherish the green of every blade of grass.