Daoist Master Shen Doesn't Know What a Transmigration Novel Is

by NothingSuspicious (ActuallyWriting)

Summary:

In which Shen Qiao falls from Banbu Peak, lands in Shen Qingqiu's body, and is so genre-unsavvy it loops back around to being pretty good at it, actually.

The System may have bitten off more than it could chew.

Notes:

• For HornedQueenOfHell.
• Inspired by Results May Vary by HornedQueenOfHell

All blame for this goes squarely to the lovely hornedqueenofhell, and also my insomnia.
Sincerely, I hope you're proud of yourself.

Chapter 1: Exposition

Proud Immortal Demon Way was a male power fantasy of a stallion novel. To be more specific, it was a monster-fighting, escapist cultivation novel with an incomparably ridiculous length, a golden finger that broke every rule, and a harem size nearing the triple-digits, seeing as every single female character fell for the protagonist.

In other words, it was the type of novel an aspiring young disciple of Qi Fengge would never even touch, never mind reading it cover to cover.
So were most kinds of escapist novels, actually, up to and including the genre sometimes called portal fantasy, isekai or transmigration stories.

Which would make Shen Qiao - daoist cultivator since the tender age of five; inhabitant of a textbook wuxia setting anno 575 C.E.; avid reader of classics, cultivational texts, and only occasionally a few novels - being transmigrated into that exact type of story, quests, System, and mandatory plot points included, a little inconvenient.

Inconvenient, that was, for the System. Daoist Master Shen took a very firm stance against harming children.