Mu Ran had a dream.
In the dream, she lived in a technologically advanced world that was completely different from the world of cultivation.
One day, she clicked on a currently popular male-oriented web novel. She still remembered the name of this novel was The Great Dao Towards Me.
In the story, although the male lead had the surname of a cultivation aristocratic family, he was merely a disciple of a branch family. His cultivation was mediocre, with nothing dazzling about him, until the death of his parents ignited his heart for revenge.
Thus, he desperately embarked on the path of cultivation.
At first, he could only join an obscure little sect, but he was the male lead after all, so he also obtained some serendipities.
For example, he took a small blue fish from a pool as his magical treasure. This little fish, however, was a natural spiritual entity that could grow stronger as its master's cultivation increased. At the same time, the more treasures it ate, the more it could feed spiritual energy back to its master.
Unfortunately, he lacked resources. Before he could feed the little fish into a big fish, he was coveted by his fellow disciples because of a longevity pill he had accidentally refined.
His master wanted to kill him and snatch the pill, and his fellow disciples eyed him like hungry tigers.
But the male lead was the male lead after all. After his home was shattered and he was left all alone, his style of doing things became increasingly ruthless. Without waiting for those people to besiege him, he took the initiative to poison everyone to death, and then looted all the treasures in the sect.
During his hundreds of years of cultivation, it could be said that he spent them killing and seizing treasures. Relying on the single word kill, he forcibly forged his own path of cultivation.
Generally speaking, the heavier the slaughter, the easier it is to breed inner demons and become a demonic cultivator. However, he did not have this trouble, simply because he viewed killing as a means and never wavered in his original heart.
This male lead's style of doing things was exceptionally decisive and ruthless, somewhat different from the novel protagonists she had read about before. Mu Ran felt this story was quite interesting, so she continued reading.
When his cultivation reached a bottleneck, he decided to take a trip to the Void Secret Realm in order to seek an opportunity to break through.
In the Void Secret Realm, a female character who made readers' eyes light up finally made her debut.
The rumored Fairy Hongfu was pure and flawless, cold as snow, like an unreachable bright moon. She was a peerless beauty that many cultivators wanted to become Dao companions with.
When the male lead saved Fairy Hongfu, Mu Ran and the other readers all thought the male lead was going to develop a romantic storyline with this female character. Unexpectedly, the male lead turned around and threw Fairy Hongfu into a formation as cannon fodder, just so it would be more convenient for him to loot the treasures in the secret realm.
Seeing this person expressionlessly do such an ungentlemanly thing, Mu Ran, as a reader, also commented: What a dog.
Later, he cultivated to the Void Piercing Realm, but there was no sign of him breaking through for a long time.
After another bloody battle, he stood alone at the peak of a snowy mountain, looking down at the vast world, thousands of miles of white snow, without a trace of mortal fireworks. He suddenly understood.
In his life, there was only slaughter and cultivation. No joy, no sorrow, no attachments, no weaknesses, and no warmth.
He severed his seven emotions and six desires, thinking that was the Great Dao, but he did not know that within the Great Dao, there were also human feelings.
With no emotions to sever, there are no emotions to comprehend; with no love to guard, there are no obsessions to break. Below Void Piercing is power; above Void Piercing is the human heart.
To break through the realm, he could no longer be a sword that only knew how to kill.
To achieve the Dao, he must first become a human.
He had experienced the taste of familial love, but his parents were already dead.
He had also made friends, but in the end, due to fighting for interests, they betrayed each other. His friends died, and he luckily survived.
Love, hate, anger, and obsession, he seemed to have tasted them all. But thinking carefully, only the feeling of mutual companionship, clean and stable, never leaving nor abandoning, he had never possessed.
At that time, Han Yu wandered in the cold wind, ate a snowflake, felt its master's emotional fluctuations, and looked at him curiously.
Facing the direction of the wind and snow, he said: Since I lack emotion, I shall make up for it. Since I have no home, I shall start a family.
Therefore, he decided to start a family and establish a career like an ordinary mortal.
A career is easy to establish, but what about the person to start a family with him?
One evening at nightfall, someone knocked on his door.
Opening the door, he saw a girl wearing a dark green dress.
She presented a basket of fresh lotus pods and said with a smile: I just moved here not long ago. We will be neighbors from now on. I am giving this to you as a meeting gift.
He could tell at a glance that her foundation had been crippled, but because it was irrelevant, he didn't care about the story behind her.
They didn't meet often, simply because she really didn't like to go out. Sometimes he heard banging sounds coming from the opposite house, not knowing what she was busy with.
Only occasionally, when she had nothing to eat and had to go out to buy some food, and happened to run into him going to work at the medical clinic, did the two meet, but this was nothing more than a nodding acquaintance.
What truly changed all this was that rainy night.
She knocked on his door once again in the cold wind. No calculations, no schemes, no cultivation, no ambitions.
Only a wretched appearance and a cautious little smile, Could I borrow your tools to repair the roof?
Looking at the thin and weak body in the rain, listening to the sound of the rain smashing on her oil-paper umbrella, he suddenly thought: Since I need to experience a lifetime of marriage, why can't this person be her?
Thus, their encounters became more and more frequent after that rainy night. Smiling, holding hands, hugging, and then kissing... Every step was taken just right, and getting married naturally became a matter of course.
But the male lead was going to become the strongest person in the world. A woman with no cultivation, no strong background, and not even the most beautiful in the entire continent, how could she be his final companion?
The meaning of her existence was merely to let him comprehend the way to break through the realm, so she had to die.
Sure enough, the male lead successfully broke through the realm, but he was unwilling to let her leave just like that. So he pulled off his arm, used a forbidden technique, and forcefully retained a trace of her soul.
But how difficult is it to resurrect a person? Even after scavenging all the natural treasures, it was still not enough. He still lacked one thing, and coincidentally, only the number one sect of the Upper Realm, the Qingtian Sect, had this item.
The Qingtian Sect possessed extraordinary strength, and it would not be easy for him to snatch it by force.
However, the eldest miss of the Qingtian Sect appeared.
She was different from that little female cultivator whose foundation was crippled. The eldest miss's appearance was number one in the world, and she had a powerful family background. Her nature was innocent and lively, and she was willing to give up everything for him, not caring even if she had to betray her family and fall out with her father.
Furthermore, she even blocked a blade for him when he was in danger, not hesitating to give her own life to him.
The male lead, who had been lonely for many years, thus uncontrollably fell in love.
Wait until Ranran wakes up, and I will give you a proper title.
The eldest miss wept tears of joy and rushed into his arms.
A reader commented like this:
Cangshu Bai and Mu Ran were about understanding and guarding each other.
Cangshu Bai and Hongfu were about loving and killing each other.
And Cangshu Bai and Luo Qingniao, it was a physically and mentally exhausted person who finally found a warm harbor.
