Unparalleled Artist: Unlikely Hero
Following his father's murder, Wu Ling's mother returned to the life of a courtesan, disguising her young son as a girl to take refuge in the Bamboo Silk House, a women's only sect dedicated to the arts. Now, as his powers awaken, he'll find himself torn between protecting his family and the goals of powerful cultivators who see him as a means to an end. "Wu Ling, I've accepted a marriage proposal on your behalf," the bewitching Hall Master of the Bamboo Silk House declared. "When you enter the Inner Sect, you'll enter under the name 'Hua Qianhu', fiancee of a young lord of the Liang family." "Hall Master, that's impossible!" Wu Ling protested. "Even if you ignore my relationship with Meifeng, I might have dressed well enough to hide as a mortal woman but I could never..." "So you truly didn't realize what you were doing," the Hall Master said, a dark smile on her lips. "Little Ling, you're a natural-born Shapeshifter. I'll teach you what you need to know," she said, her features shifting until she looked like a mirror image of the stunned Wu Ling. "As long as you follow my arrangements and learn my techniques, it isn't impossible for you to reunite with Meifeng..." "But you should consider Young Lord Liang carefully," the Hall Master added. "His affection for you is genuine. Perhaps, one day, you'll even feel the same for him..."
Scholars’ Battle
Yu Jinqi did his best to close off his ears and ignore the sounds of a fierce battle taking place less than twenty meters away from him. Right now, Fang Lin's life depended on his skills and he refused to lose his own battle.
He'd already cut away the other Scholar's silk trousers to have better access to the bloody carnage the wolf had made of his friend's leg. Not only was one calf completely shredded with bite marks visible on stark white bone, but the wolf sharp paws had torn at the other leg when Fang Lin tried to kick his way free, leaving deep gouges that ran all the way up to his knee.
Alchemist Huang Yeyan had gifted their party with a number of powders, salves, completed medicines, and even a handful of Impure or Ordinary-grade elixirs. In fact, between his own supplies and what they'd been given, one of his first problems was that he had too many choices.