The Scummy Alpha Disciple Defies Her Superior

He Zhi woke up to find herself inside a revenge-and-torment cultivation novel. In the story, she was the Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign's disciple, but she spent all her time neglecting cultivation and looking for shortcuts. By sheer chance, she even discovered her master's secret.

The Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign was a Kun Yuan who practiced an extremely yin cultivation technique. But her innate divine soul was incomplete, and she needed to form a bond with a destined Qian Yuan to glimpse the secrets of ascension.

The original host got an idea and went to great lengths to disguise herself as that destined Qian Yuan, becoming her master's cultivation partner. Before the wedding, she was respectful and well-mannered, promising to obey her master's every instruction. But something went wrong when the Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign formed the bond, and she lost all her power, falling from the clouds into the dust in an instant.

Seeing the shortcut she'd worked so hard to obtain go to waste, the original host immediately showed her true colors. She humiliated her powerless master in every way, hoping to make off with the Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign's accumulated treasures and leave. Little did she know that this was exactly what the Heavenly Dao had ordained.

The tormented Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign overcame her final tribulation and successfully ascended. On the day of her ascension, phoenixes soared through the heavens, auspicious clouds appeared, and heavenly music rang out. Amid the peaceful scene, she casually swung her sword and struck her former wicked disciple and cultivation partner until her soul was utterly destroyed.

If the original host hadn't done so much evil, she could have ascended alongside her as her cultivation partner. Sadly, she had cut off her own path.

He Zhi swore she would never follow the original host's path. She'd finally gotten the chance to cultivate immortality, so of course she'd open her eyes and get straight to cultivation!

But when she opened her eyes, she found herself gripping the iron chain around the Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign's neck, keeping the supreme being, who had once been untouched by the mortal world, trapped beside the bed and tormenting her until she was a disheveled mess.

Damn it. Her knees nearly gave way, and she almost dropped to the floor right there.

After spending a while making amends and atoning by working like an ox and a horse, He Zhi was told by the System that she had to keep tormenting the Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign. Otherwise, she would never overcome her tribulation and would be trapped here forever, unable to ascend.

He Zhi: Hah. If you want me dead, just say so.

System: After the Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign kills you, the System will grant you one wish. Ascending will be no problem.

He Zhi: You should have said so sooner.

Saying it was one thing, but He Zhi really couldn't bring herself to torment the Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign. After turning it over in her mind, she remembered the classic scumbag Alpha playbook: flirt around, cheat, and torment them in body and soul!

After a long search, she settled on the Sect Master of the Hehuan Sect. On the day He Zhi returned from the Hehuan Sect, deliberately bearing marks she'd fabricated, and asked to dissolve their cultivation bond, the Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign overcame her tribulation right in front of her.

She closed her eyes and waited for the sword to strike her dead. She had even discussed her wish for ascension with the System, but instead of a world-destroying sword aura, a waterfall came crashing down from the heavens.

Pinned beneath the water, she nearly had a layer of skin scrubbed off. The Azure Cloud Sword Sovereign insisted on washing away every last one of those marks!

He Zhi: Uh, not dying won't stop me from ascending, right?

A scumbag Alpha disciple who only wants to ascend vs. an icy master who only wants to ascend with her wicked disciple and cultivation partner

Reader's Guide:

1. Qian Yuan = Alpha, Kun Yuan = Omega. In this story, these terms refer to innate cultivation constitutions and techniques that are extremely yang or yin; there are no biological issues.

2. Cultivation levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Great Vehicle, Deification, and Ascension to Sainthood. Each level has four minor stages: early, middle, late, and perfection.

3. The story has a mountain of original worldbuilding, but overall follows the traditional cultivation genre.

Theme: Ascension means that heaven and earth are vast, and you can roam wherever you please.