My Spirit Pet Became My Dao Companion. What Did I Do Right?

Qi Zheng, senior disciple of Gourd Peak and the undisputed queen of overachievers.

Her dream is to attend Qiyun Pavilion, the cultivation world's premier comprehensive university.

At last, her chance arrives. Qiyun Pavilion's once-every-five-years secret realm trial is about to begin, and the champion will receive a guaranteed admission spot.

Qi Zheng: I'm coming!

She celebrates too soon. As soon as she arrives at Qiyun Pavilion, her cat goes missing.

She made a contract with this cat when she was a child. It's aloof and proud, and never clings to anyone. Luckily, it only lets her pet it, which does wonders for Qi Zheng's vanity.

While looking for the cat, she bumps into someone. It turns out to be Qu Fangmiao, the sword sect's top disciple at Qiyun Pavilion.

Qu Fangmiao, looking warm and gentle: “What kind of spirit pet is it? I'll help you look.”

Qi Zheng: “A fat little blue cat.”

Qu Fangmiao turns on his heel and walks away.

Qi Zheng: ?

Her peaceful life is completely upended when Qi Zheng accidentally gets caught up in a mystery that has been festering for a thousand years.

After assembling the protagonist group, she enters illusions again and again in search of the truth.

While Qi Zheng chats with a friend, Chief Qu uses a same-frequency communication technique, sending his voice straight into Qi Zheng's mind.

This technique can only be used between master and servant or between cultivation partners.

Qi Zheng: !

Qi Zheng: Are you spying on me?

Chief Qu, righteous and indignant: I didn't do it on purpose.

Her friend is surrounded by monsters and beset on all sides, while there's no one else nearby to help Qi Zheng.

Qi Zheng: What's going on? Did you do this?

Qu Fangmiao: No idea.

Qi Zheng: ?

Chief Qu is injured saving Qi Zheng, so out of basic decency, she has to look after him for a few days.

Once again, her cat fails to appear in the same scene as Qu Fangmiao.

Alone without her cat, Qi Zheng is miserable with loneliness.

So she tries out the advanced pet-finding technique she just learned, which shows the exact distance between her and her spirit pet.

The contract mark on her skin burns, and a golden character appears in the air: zero.

Qi Zheng stares silently at their interlaced hands, held by her delirious patient, and falls into deep thought.

Also known as I Just Wanted to Go to Graduate School, But I Became the Dean Because I Couldn't Mind My Own Business and Lovers Eventually Become Master and Servant

[Reading Guide]

1. Lighthearted and relaxed, with a touch of an ensemble cast and a touch of silliness.

2. Plot-focused, with little romance in the first half.

3. The vocabulary and sentence structures don't have a strong historical feel.

4. I'm adjusting the pacing. It picks up from Chapter 37.

5. Couple: well-read, absent-minded, silly senior disciple of the beast sect x aloof, powerful, proud divine beast and top disciple of the sword sect.

I drew the cover and the stick figures myself. The simple lines still convey expressions and spirit, with an open, fluid touch and the author's ingenuity hidden within.

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