I'm a Legend Throughout the Cultivation World

[Read the notes at the bottom of the blurb before you start!]

Seven hundred years ago, Cang Shuzhi, the first person in the world to reach the threshold of ascension, sacrificed himself to save the world, sealing the Nether Dragon beneath Mount Xuanwu.

Seven hundred years later, the Nether Dragon escaped, Mount Xuanwu crumbled, and Cang Shuzhi returned to the cultivation world.

Only to discover that stories about him were everywhere, from the streets to the alleys

Bystander A: I heard Cang Shuzhi is ten feet tall, with a face like a demon. Terrifying!

Bystander B: I heard he’s a womanizer. No woman is safe from his clutches, from eight-year-old girls to eighty-year-old grandmothers. He even goes after married women. Sick!

Bystander C: I heard he’s a bloodthirsty killer, and that his Wuwang Sword was forged by soaking it in the blood of hundreds of demons. Gruesome!

Cang Shuzhi: ?

Damn it, can someone arrest all the people spreading these rumors?

Even more absurdly, his old friends had all turned into people he barely recognized:

His junior brother, who once followed his every lead and snuck around with him, had become a shrewd, silver-tongued elder!

His second junior sister, who used to shout about fighting anyone who crossed her, had become a renowned healer who saved lives across the land!

His sworn rival, who used to go home in tears every time Cang Shuzhi beat him, had become a mighty, decisive clan head!

As soon as they saw him, every one of them latched on like a debt collector, and he couldn’t shake them off!

With his spiritual energy coming and going unpredictably, Cang Shuzhi could only turn a blind eye and let them accompany him to find the Seven Emotions Stone and fight the Nether Dragon.

But gradually, Cang Shuzhi began to suspect that his old friends had something to do with the ridiculous rumors about him spreading through the cultivation world.

In the midst of the chaos, the Wuwang Sword was drawn for the first time in seven hundred years. Thousands of miles away, the Changsheng Sword, forged from the same source as the Wuwang, let out a piercing hum and brought someone to stand before him.

The person he couldn’t keep seven hundred years ago,

was also the person he most wanted to avoid seven hundred years later

A flash of cold light split the air, and the tip of the Changsheng Sword pointed straight at Cang Shuzhi’s throat.

Ying Mingxue’s gaze was cold and unfamiliar. He said quietly:

“You’re back. Not even going to say hello?”

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Things to know before reading:

1. This story is mainly plot-driven.

2. The top and bottom are exclusive to each other, and their roles will not switch. Readers with strong preferences about either role, please do not read.

3. The bottom appears late. The top and bottom officially reunite in Chapter 45.

4. This is an ensemble cast, not everyone will get equal attention. There will not be a string of deaths.

5. None of the characters are perfect good people. Readers looking for moral paragons, please do not read.

6. This is not a conventional power fantasy. My take on cultivation is cyberpunk, with no spiritual root attributes. Read with caution.

7. The ending is unconventional and contains lots of melodrama. If you want a perfectly happy ending, please do not read. I’m not responsible if this story wrecks you! This warning is especially important.

8. This is a self-indulgent writing exercise. The author is still learning and experimenting, and is sensitive and prone to overthinking. You can drop the story without telling me.

9. The cultivation stages in this story’s world are: Qi Refining > Foundation Establishment > Golden Core > Nascent Soul > Spirit Severing > Body Integration > Great Ascension > Tribulation Transcendence > Ascension. Each stage is divided into early, middle, and late phases, as well as the great perfection stage.

Let me also recommend my upcoming story. Interested readers can check it out next door!

A melodramatic danmei story about wealthy families in the city: He’s Not My Stepmom!

Blurb: (It’ll start once I’ve written 100,000 words in advance. If you’re passing by, please give it a little click and add it to your favorites!)

[Big-Dog-Type Spoiled Heir Top & Refined Mixed-Race Elite Bottom]

When listing the spoiled heirs of the capital’s wealthy families, one name is impossible to leave out: Fang Chuming.

There was no one more spoiled than him in the capital’s upper circles.

A rundown of his twenty-three years: heir to the Fang Group, head of the capital’s luxury car club, honorary full-attendance member of the police station, grand slam champion of street boxing tournaments, and so on and so forth…

Even a string of glittering titles couldn’t capture just how carefree Young Master Fang’s life was.

Just as Fang Chuming thought the only hardship he’d ever face was drinking coffee

The unexpected happened, as it always does.

*

The man was named Shen Changnian. He had a bewitching face, and under Old Fang’s arrangement, moved straight into the Fang family home.

During their time living together, Shen Changnian took charge and imposed a curfew, confiscated Fang Chuming’s figurines, and drove his car… Young Master Fang put up with all that. The one thing he couldn’t stand was

Shen Changnian had frozen his bank cards!!!

Shen Changnian gave him a pitiful 200 yuan a day. Fang Chuming had never been this broke in his entire life.

He called Old Fang to complain, only to find that Old Fang didn’t take his side. Instead, he told Fang Chuming to do as Shen Changnian said.

Fang Chuming’s alarm bells went off!

He called all his friends over in the middle of the night to dig into who this Shen Changnian really was.

After piecing together a bunch of secretly taken photos, Fang Chuming and his pack of troublemaking friends all leapt to their feet in unison:

Holy crap, the stepmom is here!!!

*

His friends quickly gave him a tip: Of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, try the Beauty Trap.

Fang Chuming: Is that classical Chinese? What does it mean?

His friends: The Beauty Trap means using your looks to seduce the other person, making them so infatuated that they’ll do whatever you want.

Fang Chuming: Great idea!

Fang Chuming went off full of confidence.

But gradually, he realized in despair that something was wrong.

How did Shen Changnian know the Beauty Trap too?

And how was he even better at it than Fang Chuming!!!

*

[Bonus Scene]

The Beauty Trap really did work wonders.

Fang Chuming tossed and turned, unable to sleep as he thought about Shen Changnian.

He opened a news alert on his phone, and the first thing he saw was a photo of Old Fang and Shen Changnian whispering to each other outside a hotel, their posture intimate to the extreme.

Young Master Fang was so furious he sprang right out of bed.

Late that night, a forum thread quietly updated.

[New: What should I do if the person I like is already taken?]

1F · OP: As the title says.

2F: Compete for him, or be the other man. You’re a man, right? A real man knows how to fight for what he wants. Grow a pair!

3F · OP replies: You’re right, but I’m really close with his partner. Wouldn’t that be kind of bad?

4F: It’s not cool to go after your buddy’s partner.

5F: How close are you?

6F · OP replies: His partner is my dad.

Every reply after that was the same: ???

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