The Ancestor Returns as an Outer Disciple

Three hundred years ago, Mei Qinglan was the legendary founder of the White Lotus Sect—a feared sword cultivator who stood at the peak of the cultivation world. Then Heaven struck her with a tenth bolt of lightning that should never have existed. She died knowing one thing for certain:Someone had wanted her erased. Three centuries later, Qinglan opens her eyes again. Unfortunately, she is no longer an almighty ancestor. She is Mei Lan, a sixteen-year-old outer disciple with damaged meridians, a supposedly useless spiritual root, no money, no status—and an accusation of stealing a pill hanging over her head. Worse, the White Lotus Sect she founded has become a third-rate sect. And somehow, history now remembers the terrifying Mei Qinglan as a gentle, flower-loving vegetarian who wrote poetry and never raised her voice at her disciples. Qinglan can tolerate being weak. She can tolerate sleeping beneath a leaking roof. She can even tolerate being forced to study the beginner techniques she created herself. But being punished for “disrespecting Ancestor Mei Qinglan” after correcting her own technique? Absolutely not. As Qinglan begins rebuilding her cultivation—and accidentally gathers a group of disciples everyone else has deemed useless—she discovers something far more disturbing. The girl whose body she inherited may not have suffered qi deviation by accident. Elsewhere, Gu Yanhe—once a rival, a close confidant, and a love left unspoken—was still waiting for her reincarnation. Now the feared Master of the Black Sword Valley, he found a glimmer of hope when his sword recognized a trace of Mei Qinglan’s soul. When he finally arrived, disguised as a Nascent Soul “envoy,” the entire sect assumed the handsome, overly attentive man was courting an outer-sect disciple. Mei Qinglan’s death was never an accident. And her return may uncover a conspiracy that began long before she died—one connected to her vanished master, the road to Nirvana, and the people who decided that immortality should belong only to those they could control. She founded the sect once. This time, she may have to save it as its lowest-ranked disciple. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Ancestor Returns as an Outer Disciple — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠