Junior Sister must ascend this time!

Liu Fushu survived nine tribulations.

She failed the first eight times, but thought she had it in the end on the ninth.

By the time she had withstood the ninety-eighth bolt of heavenly lightning, she had already prepared her ascension speech: "Thank you, Heaven; thank you, Earth; thank you, myself..."

Wait, that's not right.

Why did her soul leave her body?

She'd never heard of ascending to immortality without a physical body.

At that moment, the last bolt of lightning struck, and her soul completely separated from her body. She watched helplessly as "herself" plummeted straight down from the sky.

"Fushu!"

"Uncle-Master Liu!"

The sect leader, all the elders and disciples of Chengtian Sect were watching the ceremony below, and at this moment they all knelt on the ground, weeping.

Oh, she ascended to heaven, not ascended to immortality.

Liu Fushu remained silent for a full three seconds.

Then he burst into a tirade, "To hell with the damn Heavenly Dao! I cultivate diligently every day, and it's one thing if it won't let me ascend, but why did it strike me down? Are you blind?...@%@##%..."

He cursed for a full half hour, insulting Heaven, all sorts of relatives, and even his ancestors for eighteen generations.

Liu Fushu was exhausted and just wanted to catch her breath when a human-shaped ball of light suddenly appeared in front of her.

Liu Fushu was in a bad mood and asked bluntly, "Who are you?"

The ball of light sneered, "I am the dog Heavenly Dao you speak of."

If it were before, Liu Fushu would have knelt down immediately if she knew that what was in front of her was the Heavenly Dao, but she was already dead, so what was there to be afraid of?

So she questioned, "Since you are the Heavenly Dao, then explain why you won't let me ascend?"

The Heavenly Dao, feigning profundity, said, "The karmic ties are not yet severed."

Liu Fushu was very annoyed and scratched his head: "...Speak like a human!"

Heaven's Way: ………

"It's not that I'm preventing you from ascending, but the guiding array between the Immortal Realm and the Cultivation Realm has been destroyed, and I can't interfere, which is why no one has ascended in the past hundred years. I came to find you because you can, and only you can, open this passage."

Liu Fushu: "So you just killed me?"

Tiandao felt slightly guilty. "Don't worry, I will arrange a completely new identity for you. I will also do my best to help you."

Liu Fushu: "What if I don't want to do it?"

The Heavenly Dao shrugged its "shoulder," saying, "Anyway, your physical body is destroyed, so you can only be a wandering ghost."

Liu Fushu wanted to hit someone, but she had no other choice but to stay alive.

"Alright, then remember to arrange a good identity for me. Ideally, I'd have a natural Dao physique, a max-level Heavenly Spiritual Root, a sword genius, a talisman prodigy, and some knowledge of alchemy, formations, beast taming, etc.—not necessarily too proficient, just unmatched within the Nine Provinces. And also…"

Heavenly Dao: "...Get out of here! Hurry up and find the fragments of the guiding array; we don't have much time left."

"Okay!"

"Tremble, cultivation world! I'm back!"

Heavenly Dao: ...How about we find someone else?

After a bout of dizziness, Liu Fushu woke up.

Liu Fushu opened her eyes, eager to know what new identity Heaven had arranged for her. And then…

She found herself lying at the foot of Broken Spirit Cliff, covered in wounds.

You damned Heavenly Dao! I'll fight you to the death! What happened to the promised innate Dao body?!

Liu Fushu sat up in anger, but the movement aggravated her wound and she almost fainted from the pain again.

Oh well, it's good that I'm alive.

Liu Fushu resigned herself to her fate and closed her eyes to read the original owner's memories:

Yun Qing, an outer disciple of Chengtian Sect, is in the mid-stage of Qi Refining and possesses dual spiritual roots of metal and wood.

Three days ago was the outer disciple competition of Chengtian Sect. The first place winner could be promoted to inner disciple. The original owner had a smooth run in the previous competitions and advanced to the final round.

The original owner was also unlucky. On the day before the final competition, which was also the day Liu Fushu ascended to immortality, instead of going to watch the ceremony, he insisted on returning to his residence to cultivate. That's when he witnessed the unspeakable affair between Jiang Fu and Elder Zhao, who shared the same room.

The original owner was a fifteen-year-old girl who had never seen anything like it before. She was so frightened that she hurriedly ran away, and in her panic, her sword tassel fell at the door.

As luck would have it, this sword tassel was the one Jiang Fu gave me when I first started learning the craft.

Jiang Fu, whose shameful act had been discovered, was certainly not going to let her off the hook. So, under the pretext of sparring, she took her to Broken Spirit Cliff, stabbed her in the heart with a sword when she wasn't paying attention, and pushed her off the cliff.

Liu Fushu, no, now it's Yun Qing, opened her eyes, a cold glint flashing in them.

She's lived for hundreds of years; what kind of schemes and plots hasn't she seen? Jiang Fu, is it? You do inhuman things and then take someone's life? Just wait until I get up there, and I'll show you what regret is.

But how do we get up there?

Not only is the Broken Spirit Cliff extremely high, but there isn't even a trace of spiritual energy at its base, making it impossible to use internal energy to repair one's body.

"Whoosh! Thump!"

At this moment, a figure fell down, no more than five zhang away from Yun Qing.

What are you doing?! What's with today's auspicious day? Are you going to jump off a cliff in a group?!

At that moment, the figure lying on the ground suddenly moved. "Ugh, so annoying, I didn't die again."

Yun Qing: ...Look, is this even human language?

The figure seemed to have noticed Yun Qing as well. He sat up and said to Yun Qing, "What a coincidence, are you here to die too?"

Yun Qing: ………

She glared at the man, only then seeing his face clearly: blue hair, green eyes, and skin as white as snow. He was so beautiful that he didn't seem like a righteous cultivator, but rather like a captivating spirit.

I feel like I've seen this somewhere before?

Yun Qing searched for her memories when she was still Liu Fushu, and suddenly remembered that her senior brother, the sect leader, had brought back a very handsome male disciple named Jiang Mian.

However, she was busy cultivating at the time and didn't take it to heart.

Now she recalls how her senior brother, the sect leader, would often complain to her that this disciple had exceptional talent and learned everything very quickly.

He has a rather eccentric personality; he's always looking for death, but he never actually dies, so he and several elders have to take turns watching him to see if he's still alive.

Yun Qing couldn't help but laugh.

Jiang Mian frowned unhappily. "Are you mocking me?"

Yun Qing quickly waved her hand, "No, Senior Brother Jiang. I fell off the Broken Spirit Cliff and was seriously injured, so I can't climb back up. You just happened to fall down, isn't that fate?"

Jiang Mian: "You know me?"

Yun Qing: "Of course! Who in Cheng Tian Sect doesn't know Senior Brother Jiang? A genius among geniuses! It's the greatest honor of my life to know Senior Brother Jiang!"

"So, could you please rescue me first, considering we're from the same sect?"

Jiang Mian stood up, dusted herself off, and said without hesitation, "No. I'm not interested in saving people."

Yun Qing could have predicted this answer; after all, it was normal for him to be wary of people given his personality.

So, she smiled broadly again and said, "Senior Brother Jiang, don't worry, as long as you save me, I will do everything I can to repay you in the future."

Jiang Mian remained expressionless. "No need."

"Then, Senior Brother Jiang, you can make one request. I will definitely fulfill it if I can do it."

"don't want."

Please~

"Don't beg."

…………

Yun Qing was furious. If it weren't for her low cultivation level and injury, she really wanted to crack open this child's head to see what he was thinking!

She had lived for hundreds of years in her previous life and had seen all sorts of demons and monsters. But Jiang Mian, who was so unyielding, was truly a first for her.

Forget it. Might as well give up.

"I don't know what the sect leader sees in you that makes him insist on taking you as his personal disciple. I think you're not even as good as an outer disciple; all you think about is dying, you have no sense of responsibility whatsoever."

Jiang Mian's expression changed several times after hearing this, then she suddenly laughed and walked towards Yun Qing's direction.

Yun Qing: ………I'm doomed! I've really angered him! Great, I'm going to die again…

"You swore really well just now. Swore it again for me, and I'll save you."