She chose the path of cultivating immortality for one reason: eternal life.
[Quietly brooding man x peacock]
[Cover illustration: Zhong Yu Huashuo]
[Cover lettering: Xiao Huiniao / Heng Bai / Ji Zhi / Pilian]
[Character artist: Mingming Youyu]
Wen Shanyu has played many roles: the senior living at the bottom of a cliff who passes on secret techniques, the white-robed gentleman who rescues people from brothels and taverns, the old man in a ruined temple in the forest who enlightens travelers... and the patriarch whose name is sure to appear if you trace the lineage of countless wandering cultivators far enough back.
This was what Yuan Luochang's master told her before sacrificing himself for the Dao: go seek out the patriarch.
Her: “Who?”
Master: “The Lord of Thorn Valley, Wen Shanyu.”
Him? The Lord of Thorn Valley who loves to teach, passes through all the flowers, and takes not only flowers but even branches as disciples?
Yuan Luochang, who had already reached the Golden Core stage at thirteen, had once looked down on him.
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Later, after the disciple mark between Yuan Luochang's brows had been passed down through who knows how many generations of masters, the patriarch insisted on making her, his officially registered grand-disciple, his first disciple.
Yuan Luochang: “Then what about my master?”
Wen Shanyu: “I'm your master.”
Yuan Luochang: “I mean Venerable Qingxu.”
Wen Shanyu: “I kicked him out of the sect~”
Venerable Qingxu, already deceased: ...
The former grand-disciple, who ascended ahead of schedule: ...
Theme: May my hair turn white beneath the snow in this life
