Beware of Chicken (original English xianxia) interlude: The Ascending Mountaineer.
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Casualfarmer Wrote:It's amazing where a quirk of fate can take you, Yushang mused.
And it had just been one quirk of fate after another, hadn't it? A girl from a village, through a quirk of fate ignited her dantian. A girl from a backwater village who, through a quirk of fate, managed to navigate the Howling Sword Arts Academy and come out stronger, rather than chewed up and spat out like most of the other commoners.
Who through a quirk of fate, chose to take the entrance exam to the Shrouded Mountain Sect in the same year that Bi De, Ri Zu, and Yun Ren had arrived.
All she had wanted to do was to take care of her family and hopefully strike it rich herself. That had been the goal. And now, she was trekking through the Sea of Snow on a mission to slay demons.
When she said it like that, it kind of sounded like she was a character in a story!
Hells, this entire thing sounded like a story, didn't it? There would be somebody who would read about what they did together some day. It probably wasn't her story—
It would probably be called The Celestial Heavens Defying Rooster or something, she thought with amusement, peeking at Bi De.
But that was fine. All that mattered was that Yushang didn't screw up and she got a happy ending—maybe she'd be popular enough that there would be a Yushang in every book, like how every good protagonist has a fat friend like Han!
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