[Blurb screenshotted on May 5, 2025]
If anyone in the cultivation world today deserves to be called "a breeze and bright moon," then ninety percent of cultivators would choose Hua Fangyun without hesitation.
The remaining ten percent would choose Hua Fangyun after a brief moment of thought.
Eighty years ago, Hua Fangyun sealed an ancient horned lizard beneath an icy spring with a single divine sword strike, saving thousands of cultivators and the people of fourteen cities through his own efforts. No one could forget that fleeting glimpse beneath the bright moon on a snowy night eighty years ago.
Even fewer could forget that after that strike, the cultivation world's acknowledged greatest sword prodigy, Hua Fangyun, went white-haired overnight and was left gravely wounded, on the brink of death.
What a tragedy.
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What a tragedy that my retirement only just began, after eighty years of work.
Hello, I'm Hua Fangyun, an exemplary employee of the Transmigration Bureau, and a wage slave who should have retired by now.
Eighty years ago, I finally ended my life as a cultivation wage slave, working from five in the morning until ten at night. With one sword strike, I cut short the ancient horned lizard's childish dream of ruling the world, and also cleaved apart my own beautiful retirement plan of retiring after a job well done.
Though my exit was a little messy and left my demonic lord junior brother and everyone in my sect with lasting psychological scars, all in all, life was pretty good.
Over these eighty years of retirement, my old wounds never healed, but I stayed cooped up in my cave abode, enjoying games and snacks airmailed from the Transmigration Bureau. I had money, free time, and a happy life.
But life is full of surprises. My former boss suddenly came to me in tears, telling me that the world I'd just saved was in trouble again and I had to come out of retirement.
Me: ...?
You're saying that I, the frail, disabled, cultivation-less, broken and delicate person in the eyes of the world, have to do it?
Ha ha.
I'm doomed!
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"Eighty years ago, he was a spirited young man who saved tens of thousands of people in fourteen cities with a single sword strike. Eighty years later, his body is shattered by illness, yet he still upholds the righteous path. His grace remains unmatched."
The storyteller cleared his throat.
"This story begins when the Immortal Venerable makes his first public appearance after suffering a grave injury, and takes the future Demon King as his disciple..."
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* Fake angst and imagined suffering abound. The protagonist is injured but actually very strong, and not as miserable as everyone thinks.
* Sickly beauty, adored by everyone
* The protagonist is the cultivation world's ultimate white moonlight. His Transmigration Bureau secret identity is never exposed.
* And the protagonist really does want to retire. Who wouldn't?
Theme: Take responsibility for the people's lives