Write a Xianxia novel plot

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  1. Nightazday

    Nightazday Well-Known Member

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    Do you have an idea of a Xianxia novel but do not have the time to write the novel yourself? Post it here I am interested in reading it.
     
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    protagonist meet idiotic young masters who provoke him, kill the young masters and their clan, take the girl, love her for few chapters then proceed to the next city where he does the same, rinse and repeat
     
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    There is this cat. He is invisible and is super op. He goes around the multiverse defeating everyone from invincible Kings to celestial immortals because he is invisible and op like that. He does whatever he wants until one day he dies.
     
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    I've thought about writing a Xianxia novel about raising the MC's clan to the peak. The MC can be reincarnated or whatever, but is born as the heir of a small cultivation clan. They are nobodies on the continent and countless cultivators could crush them as if they were ants. The MC grows slowly as he isn't a 'genius' and he tries his best to help his clan reach the peak. Fighting off other factions, sects, and clans, he brings his clan upwards to glory and becoming ranked at the peak.
     
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    Protagonist is a mortal who cannot cultivate and his lucky item allows him to cultivate really fast

    Only problem is that his lucky item smells amazing and is inside his heart, which pumps out blood. So, whenever he gets injured a sweet aroma comes out and everyone wants to eat him.
     
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    strayCat0 What are you doing right now?

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    An Immortal sat down inside his little house. He sipped a small mouthful of tea. That's fragrances made him smile while he emptied his cup.

    He looked at the lower world. People kills. Chaos happened everywhere. In the end, he filled his cup again with his already brewed hot tea from a teapot, and sipped a small mouthful of tea again.

    Hoping this peacefulness never end.
     
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    about a cultivator who already reached immortality but regret everything he had done. so he traveled to various planes and worlds and help everyone he meets to atone his sins.

    So its kind off xianxia version of One-Punch man
     
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    Active Feminist goes to Xianxia world.

    Imagine the chaos THAT will cause.

    Edit: oh I'm not anti feminist by the way.
     
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    Throughout different universes or realms; countless races of myriad powers all spoke of ancient times, and one was the Immemorial Era.
    This is a Xianxia not about cultivation means power nor rising to become the powerful but: to become the first of the many Immortals to come, to deny the Heavens and go against Fate, transforming the Realm into the Dao!
    This is the story about the beginning of the Dao, and how two brothers unite only to become nemesis; this blood-feud that waged until even now, this Immortal War that started made the Three Realms and Nine Worlds come into being!
    This is the tale of Xian Xia and Xian Xiu; the Progenitors of Immortal Foundations; Heavenly Dao Emperor and Infernal Demon Emperor!
    Read the tale of tales that even dead men speak of past tomorrows!
    The Heavens deny but the Immortal reigns supreme!
    Asunder the Heavens and devour the stars!
    I am Dao incarnate; never shall be defeated!
     
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  10. Eve

    Eve Title under construction

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    mc reincarnated as arrogant young master that is destined to die in the hand of the world's protagonist.
    mc wants to avoid dying so he trains hard and .... well..... something like our otome game villain things that's im reading recently. :3
     
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    MataMelirik *wink*wink*

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    about dwarv cultivator naned mounttai. he is so small that every time he is go outside his immortal cave peoples bumping him.
    when thats happen he always shout "you have eyes but can't see mount tai!"
     
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    MC achieve the Dao of Mirror, giving him the ability transform into other people and use their ability (while in their form only). Dao name is Thousand Face Trickster because he liking causing problems for others.
     
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    Razogul [Flag Raiser][Rald's and Carm's Senpai]

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    MC is transferred into the other world. He discovers that he has trash talent and can't cultivate any techniques. So, he comes up with a cultivation technique for himself. However, this makes his body immune to poison and he can be refined to be medicine. Sought after if people know about it. Due to not being arrogant and knowing better, he befriends young masters! However, turns out he's the only odd one out...since there are generic xianxia MCs out there. Just the presence of them makes peerless women love them and young masters become idiots. The story of the MC trying to avoid the provocation of them and live a happy life. However...not all goes as planned when certain flags appear due to the MC not noticing.
     
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    Bullying, revenge, plot armor, tournament and the never ending rinse and repeat plot
     
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    have a few ideas of my own

    1. MC is a thief constantly on the run from the law. His only good act is one time where he picked up a random orphan and raised him to be a thief like him (basically to exploit him). He eventually gets captured and tortured to death only to also be tortured in hell. However the underworld opens up revealing an immortal. The immortal was the orphan who used the skills the MC taught him to reach the apex of the cultivation world. As gratitude not only did he take revenge for him he will also reincarnate him with his memories intact

    2. MC, getting blocked from reaching the apex, found away to travel back in time to when he was young. Only problem is that the method turned the young MC into a female! As the former harem becomes evil manipulative people that conspire against him and the rich and spoiled young masters that he killed start vying for her affection. MC's cultivation journey will be more difficult than it was originally

    3. A Xianxia set in fantasy Rome. The starting city is a republic. The Immortals have more in common with Greek/Roman gods. The ancient "lost era" is modeled after Troy/Mycenaean Greece, and the series plays like a Greek/Roman epic but without the hubris.

    sounds kinda like Poisoning the World
    Really that would only turn heads in the starting village. Usually cultivation world the rules are "if strong you can do what you want, if weak you can only beg for mercy."
     
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    It's too long to write a full story, so i'll quickly write a summary:

    Setting:
    A world similar to Earth, with technology/culture similar to Ancient China, gets suddenly flooded with Vitality, or Life Energy. This energy is absorbed by beasts/animals, and they mutate/evolve into stronger beings. Humans have an extremely hard time absorbing this energy, and are pushed to the brink of extinction by the beasts, and this Life Energy is then referred to as Demonic Energy by the remaining humans, and the beasts as Demonic (Even though there's nothing evil about them, that's how they percieve it).

    Some humans discovered that instead of trying to strengthen their own bloodline (which humans find hard to do), they could absorb the bloodline of other beasts to strengthen themselves, but in exchange are mutated to have traits similar to the beasts in question. The 'demonic' humans fight back the demonic beasts, but then enslave the rest of humanity.

    Normal humans pray to the heavens, and the heaven's answer by also flooding the world with Heavenly Energy, or Qi. This opens up cultivation for normal humans, who cultivate, and free themselves from the demonic humans. Humans occupy the Qi rich areas of the world, while demonic humans occupy areas rich in Life Energy. Things such as spiritual herbs or other such valuable resources are often found in areas rich in both Qi and Vitality, which leads to skirmishes between the two sides.

    Thousands of years later, Human cultivators spend most of their time cultivating, they needed slave labor and a bigger army to hold off not only the demonic humans but also the beasts, so they created a slave race of demonic humans by finding suitable demonic beast bloodlines (timid/weak creatures for maids, fast maturing creatures with strong battle capabilities for soldiers, etc), and created slave clans. They are looked down upon by both sides: Humans see them as halfbreeds, and demonic humans also see them as halfbreeds, and not truebloods that have evolved over generations since the first demonic humans.

    Cultivation:
    Three Systems
    Qi Cultivation
    Mostly the same as other Xianxia, gather Qi, go up minor stages, eventually go up major stages for a big boost in strength. Each major cultivation stage requires a certain amount of Qi density around them to cultivate, so as you go up in ranks, you may need to go to an area with more Qi to continue cultivating (or you just cant continue cultivating). If you stop cultivating for too long (or don't cultivate long enough), your cultivation decrease.

    However, cultivation speed is fixed. Regardless of cultivation method (which have other perks), they're all the same speed. There are no resources to speed this up. Cultivation resources are mostly to refill Qi, break through bottlenecks, and to increase Qi density around a cultivator(allowing cultivators to cultivate in lower density areas).

    Humans are born with a blessing from the heavens, which allows them to cultivate at twice the speed, in areas with half the required Qi density, and reduces the difficulty of bottlenecks for a certain number of years. This duration is usually based on the cultivation of the parents, but can vary, leading to children who are 'wastes' or 'prodigies' in any family. Someone who's blessing has run out will need to spend cultivation resources in low Qi density areas, which makes families and sects not want them.

    Most mortals don't cultivate because to reach the highest possible cultivation speed, for every 4 days a cultivator spends cultivating, he needs to spend 1 day not cultivating at all to consolidate it, and a cultivator can't breakthrough till their foundation is completely consolidated. Most mortals can't afford that much free time(but their children might be able to), or they decide it isn't worth losing 80% of their lives doing basically nothing.

    Cultivation doesn't increase lifespan (cultivator can live 100-120 years). A cultivator can ascend to a higher plane if his cultivation hits the peak, but this is extremely hard to complete in a lifetime, especially without a Blessing for most of their life, because of bottlenecks, and there are very few areas with high enough Qi density at that cultivation level requiring massive amounts resources to make up the difference. Most cultivators will cultivate until their blessing runs out, and then spend their time doing/working for their sect or family, or whatever they want, while not cultivating as diligently (instead of chasing a pipe dream of ascension).

    Body Refinement
    Uses Life Energy (from food, spiritual herbs, etc) to extract strength from someone's bloodline. Humans have an extremely low bloodline limit, and breaking through major cultivation stages requires a bloodline evolution if it's low grade for the breakthough, which is twice the effort for half the reward compared to demonic beasts with strong bloodlines. It's possible to absorb another creatures bloodline to strengthen a human's bloodline, but it's extremely slow or requires expensive cultivation resources. Most humans would rather take shortcut and become a demonic human at that point.

    Because cultivators also strengthen their bodes through cultivation (although not to the same degree as body cultivation), aside from demonic humans and demonic beast, it isn't generally practiced.

    Demonic bloodlines have poor capability in refining Qi, so cultivators avoid becoming demonic humans, and demonic humans/beasts don't cultivate because it's a waste of time.

    Soul Refinement
    The strength of a soul is based on it's experiences/memories. Your soul cultivation is limited by the strength of your soul. Cultivators spend so much time cultivating (aka doing nothing), that they don't gain enough experiences/memories to strengthen their souls, and cultivation doesn't provide a large boost to soul strength (but it does a little). As such, they only really bother with soul refinement later in their lives (after they've experienced more).

    Soul Refinement is used for formations, spiritual sense, pill refinement, tool forging, mental techniques etc.

    Soul refiners could possess other people without taking control of them to let themselves experience a different life to help their cultivation, but because of a few evil ones who forcibly possessed people and took control of their bodies, and fear mongering by Qi Cultivators, soul refiners were wiped out, as with most of their legacy, leaving behind only the harmless techniques like spiritual sense, formations, etc.

    Most Qi cultivators don't bother learning much soul refinement, because they don't have the time to spend on it.


    Main Story:

    A boy is forcibly recruited into an Assassin's Guild on Earth(Real World). He's implanted with an AI that forces him to go along with the training, and helps teach him how to be an assassin. He goes through the training, but refuses to kill anyone. At his graduation, he's forced to fight in a deathmatch. He wins, but refuses to kill his opponent, who then kills him with electricity frying his brain and AI.

    He transmigrates to a new world, but as his brain was fried, he's incapacitated, and his AI personality takes over, and acts almost robotic making everyone in the family think he's retarded. When he reaches the age of 4, the AI sorts out the mess in his brain and he regains consciousness. The AI explains that it's organic now, and can't do any cool calculating ability, or scanning, and is essentially a split personality that wants him to be an assassin (but doesn't want to take control of his body, but it could try if it wanted).

    He's now a child of a concubine who fell in love with his father, and using family connections got herself 'married' to him, but she falls out of his favor and falls into a lovesick depression when he all but disowns her and leaves her with a branch family as he moves onto to be a bigshot cultivator. She loves plants and gardening, and the MC who wants to live a peaceful life picks it up from his mother.

    Because he acted retarded for the first 4 years of his life, when he becomes 'normal', everyone still in the family still treats him horribly.

    He becomes interested in cultivation, but no one wants to talk to him about the subject. He eventually sneaks around and steals a cultivation manual and attempts it, but something goes wrong, and he's stuck constantly in a state of cultivation even when he does nothing, and attempting to use a cultivation method only causes him pain. When he goes to ask his mother for help, she finally breaks down and explains that no one tells children under 10 about cultivation because if they're under 10, practicing cultivation can cause permanent damage to their ability to cultivate and forces him to promise not to ask anymore till he's 10. He can't force himself to tell her and keeps it a secret.

    Unable to spend time cultivating (because he's constantly cultivating), and not needing to spend time on martial arts (he was trained as an assassin), he tries soul cultivation and find it works when it shouldn't because he's so young (but he has experiences from his last life). Because he doesn't need to spend time cultivating, he can spend time experiencing a lot of new things for soul cultivation, and also forces the MC to constantly do new things or his cultivation will stagnate (aka, a way to try and keep the story changing rather than normal Xianxia tropes).

    When the MC's talent is tested, it's found out that he has NO Blessing whatsoever (which is practically unheard of) and they find his cultivation speed is much slower than it should be, and they kick him out of the family. MC finds that his cultivation speed is technically slower, but because he doesn't need to spend any time consolidating his foundation, his speed is roughly on par with an unblessed person. The MC realises he got a headstart on cultivation by a few years, but without a blessing he'll eventually be overtaken in speed by others at his age, making him 'trash'.

    Knowing he's not destined to be a cultivation genius, he decides to just try and make his way peacefully through the world, but the world of cultivation is one where the strong prey on the weak, and he's stuck with a split personality that's obsessed with making him an assassin.

    Interesting Future Plot Points:
    -His split personality floods him with bloodlust and forces him to kill contracted victims. MC tries to come to terms with being forced to kill, the necessity to kill others in the cultivation world to keep himself and those he cares about alive, but even when he accepts he has to, he absolutely abhors killing. But MC still LOVES revenge.

    -His inability to practice advanced cultivation techniques makes him even more garbage in the future. You need a cultivation technique that can give your Qi a fire aspect in order to use martial techniques involving fire for example, but the MC can't add any qualities to his Qi, leaving him with only plain martial techniques.

    -He's forced to become a demonic human when he's left stranded in a place with extremely low Qi levels to survive. He has to balance using demonic bloodlines to keep his strength up (as he's garbage at Qi cultivation, and knows no good offensive soul cultivation techniques), or refining that strength away to become a pure human again, while trying to hide the fact he's a demonic human from other humans, and the fact he's not a trueblood to other demonic humans.

    -His Split personality becomes less of an AI and more of a human with human desires as his soul cultivation increases. It has to deal with emotions and desires it didnt have before, and whether or not it can go against its 'programming'

    -As he's forced to do new and interesting things for soul cultivation, the story is forced to stay fresh and try not to overrely on tropes. There's even an arc where he pretends to be young master in a sect that's a parody of common Xianxia tropes! At the end he remarks it would be boring to keep doing the same thing over and over.

    -He's not going to have a harem
     
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    Yukkuri Oniisan 『Procrastinator Archwizard Translator and Writer』

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    It's a wuxia actually... But you can easily adapt it into Xianxia. (Based on an old plot I had in head)

    The Undefeated Sect Uncle Secret Romance Relationship

    Synopis:

    Dugu Shengji (独孤 胜迹) is the little brother of the current leader of the Sect of Undefeated Sword (不败之剑派), the strongest and largest sect in Middle Plains, earning him the nickname as "Sect Uncle". Secretly stronger than his brother, Shengji shunned the blood-thirsty world of Jianghu (martial arts) and just pursue his interest in medicine and so he was not widely known as a strong martial artist.
    One day, due to various contrived happenstance, he ended up "confessing love" at the newbie First Rank Disciple, Juedai Lijia (爵代 丽佳), an average girl with an average look and average potential. Surprisingly, Lijia accepted that "confession". Although he didn't really feel anything towards the girl, he did his best to become a good 'boyfriend/lover' for her, while keeping their relationship secret from the rest of the sect and keeping the world safe so that a mere disciple like Lijia won't die on the battlefield.

    Spoiler Synopsis:
    In the story, each time there is a threat to Middle Plains, like a barbarian invasion or evil sects attack, Sect of Undefeated Sword as the strongest and largest sect would always send their disciples to solve the problem. Sadly, most disciples were just red shirts. Shengji's girlfriend was one of those red shirts. So as a good boyfriend, Shengji did various behind the scene work so that Lijia won't die due to someone become crazy from learning weird scroll, backstabbing sect civil wars, conflicts between smaller sects, evil sects terrorism, etc.
    All while keeping his true strength and relationship with Lijia secret. Of course, Lijia didn't know a thing about Shengji's doing, as she thought that he was just a mere "Sect Uncle" and not some "Hax Character".

    TLDR:
    A story about OP character and his relationship with a MOB girlfriend.

    Genre:
    Romance, Wuxia, OP MC, secret relationship, misunderstanding.

    Oh... Yeah... I dislike 'heavy story' so most of my stories are lighthearted theme like this...
     
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    Follow the story of <insert name of mc> human that has been killed by truck-kun and has been adopted by god after his death ; he's obviously hardworking, good looking and humble but unfortunately god has two other son and a daughter that are jealous of him because god would like to see these three be humble like the MC ; so they are scheming against the MC and one day they are making a false report to their father and MC is getting exhiled and killed or they though he would be dead...
    Watch the rise of a former human and former child of god raising his faction to destroy what is the most precious of heaven the human world, watch the rise of the hell faction.
    Obviously during the exhile on this island of heaven he's finding a talisman where is sealed a spirit of anything to help our MC.
    And then insert many stepping stone for our MC.
     
  19. Raizhee

    Raizhee who

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    There is this dog . He is invisible and is super op. He goes around the multiverse defeating everyone from invincible Kings to celestial immortals because he is invisible and op like that. He does whatever he wants until one day he dies.

    I fixed it for you. No need to thank me.
     
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    Ignus Philosopher of Flames

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