Cui Yuluo was riding her bike while logging a campus run when a car speeding through campus hit her and sent her flying. She transmigrated into the cultivation world.
The good news: she had a golden finger.
The bad news: she had to finish her daily workouts, or she would die.
The even worse news: they were called daily workouts, but were actually challenges that pushed the human body to its limits. They were downright insane.
Fortunately... this golden finger really was useful.
When demons pursued her, she stood firm as a mountain and wrecked blades with her bare hands.
In the Demon Sect's dungeon, she remained unruffled as she threw a bow stance punch and took down a powerful cultivator in an instant.
Then she smiled faintly. "I'm afraid I'm rather unremarkable. My stats are maxed out."
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Seeing the immortal sect cultivators heap praise on her physique, then offer her a handsome salary and excellent benefits, Cui Yuluo said seriously, "Don't worry. I'll be there for every team battle from now on. I can take hits and dish them out."
A few hours later, she stared blankly at the bridal gown delivered to her room.
She thought they wanted a tanky frontliner to join their party and fight in team battles. Instead, they wanted someone with a strong constitution to dual-cultivate with someone?
So she ran away. But on the way, she ran into Mu Jingxian, the former genius named in her betrothal agreement, who was gravely injured and needed to dual-cultivate with someone to heal.
Cui Yuluo: "What, you want to run away from your wedding too?"
Mu Jingxian: "How about... we talk?"
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Several months later, the immortal sects took notice of Cui Yuluo, whose face was beaming with happiness.
[Shocking! The former prodigy has become a dual-cultivation furnace!]
[The good young man of the immortal sect who swore off the ways of the world has married a heretic!]
[This heretic is advancing so quickly and has an endless supply of spirit medicines and magical treasures. She must have stolen some great fortune all for herself!]
Sect Leader A: Could that heretic have forced you?
Disciple B: Senior Brother, just say the word and we'll make a grand show of welcoming you back to the sect!
Mu Jingxian looked over the crowd, silently packed up the spirit stones and secret treasures he'd just collected, and said coolly, "No. I have to go home and do a campus run with her."
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* One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners, happy ending.
* The heroine becomes the strongest in the middle and later parts of the story. She has a golden finger, but she's not perfect.
* The System is just an aid and doesn't feature prominently. Most of the time, the heroine relies on herself.
* An alternate low-magic world, with my own take on cultivation. Lots of original worldbuilding. The cultivation ranks are: Riding the Wind, Divine Concentration, Northern Darkness, Soaring, Mortal Realm, and Carefree Journey.
* The dual cultivation in the blurb really is just cultivation at first. Slow-burn growth and power progression, four volumes, a very long story, a touch of ensemble cast, plot to romance ratio of 6:4.
* Weibo: @Nishang Lingqu. Come say hello!
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A peek at my upcoming novel, Put Your Cultivation Together for Me:
After getting food poisoning from a group-buy meal, Yun Fei transmigrated into the cultivation world...
into a tree.
Before she could even figure out what was happening, she lost her footing and fell into the arms of a young man studying a demonic beast beneath the tree.
And, of all things, she landed a kiss on him.
Yun Fei: "Can something that only happens in TV dramas really happen in real life?"
Just then, a voice rang in her mind:
[Welcome to the Bonded Cultivation System. Congratulations, Host. You have successfully bonded with Jiang Shuo.]
[The rules of the System are as follows:]
[1. The two bonded people must not be more than a hundred paces apart.]
[2. When the conditions are met, one bonded person can use the power of everyone who is bonded.]
[3. When one party is injured, the damage is shared among everyone who is bonded.]
The bewildered Yun Fei: ?
The bewildered Jiang Shuo: ???
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Jiang Shuo was a miser who cared about nothing but growing stronger.
Here are some examples of his stinginess:
1. He wouldn't let anyone come near when he practiced his sword, because he was afraid they would steal his self-created sword techniques.
2. He insisted on being the only person to use the spirit pool at any given time, because he was afraid others would benefit from the spiritual energy he absorbed.
3. He rarely used his abilities in public. For the reasons above, he was afraid people would learn his moves or absorb the spiritual energy he released.
Then he met someone who fell from the sky.
And he discovered that whenever he got too far away from her, his spiritual power was sealed.
To keep his powers from being sealed and... to find a solution, he was forced to travel with Yun Fei.
At first, all he wanted was to protect his spiritual power.
Later, all he wanted was to protect one person.
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Theme: Having seen the vastness of the world, one can still cherish the green of every blade of grass.
When will it be updated?