With One Smile, the Sword Tramples the Mushroom prologue

     This was one of the first books I read outside of the recommendations from Shusheng bar, so perhaps it's apt that this would be the first book I posted on the Shusheng .

   In the six realms, there is G.o.d, demon, immortal, spirit, mortal, ghost. 

   In the mortal world, there is a Tian Yan Mountain. On the Mountain, there is a soul splitting cliff. On the soul splitting cliff, there is a small soil mound. On the soil  mound, there is a tree. On this tree, there is a... glossy ganoderma (basically, a mushroom that grows on trees).

    "What an ugly mushroom," Someone furrowed his brow and walked away. 

   This caused the small ganodema to be a laughing stock among the other creatures on Soul Spitting Cliff. Until one day, a wash of white light fell from the sky. It caused her to save 500 years of cultivation and immediately took human form - she became a baby and was carried away. 

  Gu Xiao Mo? Little Mushroom? 

   It turns out that he and her were both monsters. Under this big sky, it is afraid that there is no s.p.a.ce to hold them. 

   What is spirit, what is demon, what is immortal, what is mortal? 

  For love and justice! Little Mushroom! Transform!

   At shusheng bar, I've commented largely on the flaws of the book - the plot and pacing is quite slow (3-3.5 stars), but what made it special for me is the main couple - Little Mushroom and Yu Liu (his name is made up of words suggesting fragance and beauty).

   Little Mushroom is a mushroom spirit, in which a small immortal who had descended to become a demon had taken possession of part of her spirit. This small immortal is made from one of the stones of Nu Wa (the great mother G.o.ddess), she is made of the same material of the Heavenly Sword - the most powerful sword in all of the realms. She descended to become a demon because she fell in love with a the great G.o.d, Zi Wei, and this was against the laws of heaven. They locked her up and she stole the Heavenly Sword and caused great chaos.

  They meet again - after Little Mushroom gets lost from her big disciple brother after her younger disciple sister got kidnapped because she was wearing Little Mushroom's pouch and they mistook her for Little Mushroom. She was sad because big disciple brother thought she was a monster. Yu Liu asks her to help him gain back his internal essence and items so he can break his seal. She didn't know yet that he was the reincarnation of the Dragon G.o.d, or his sad past.

  "It turns out that you me... both are monsters," He said lightly, without coldness, without pus.h.i.+ng anyone away. Little Mushroom paused, and forgot to smile. As the smile left her lips, it slowly appeared on Yu Liu's lips. 

   Yu Liu gazed at her back, as if he wanted to fiercely capture her expression in his heart. 

   In the midst of battle, when she was all alone, and she was sure no one will protect her - a fierce thunder attack was coming and she thought she will die...

   She froze and asked an irrelevant question. 

   "I got it from your bag."

  She shyly looked at Yu Liu, fresh blood suddenly came out of his mouth, but the laughter in his eyes did not dim. 

  Yes, cold. All these years, she was so cold until she did not realised it anymore. 

  Peng Peng. 

  Peng Peng, Peng Peng. 

  Peng Peng, Peng Peng, Peng Peng. 

  "You once asked me who you were..."Yu Liu had used his back to take the thunder spell, but acted as if nothing had happened, just smiling as he looked at her, the blood in his mouth becoming redder and redder. 

    Little Mushroom goes to save Yu Liu with one of the special herbs that breaks one of his two seals. When they re-unite, everything is different. Little Mushroom knows that she likes Yu Liu - but she is shy and a little bit depressed, because she is plain (even ugly) and he is the most beautiful guy she has ever seen. One day, she asks him to paint her - he can't paint so he paints a weird squishy thing. She is happy and sad at the same time - every girl wants to be beautiful in her special person's eyes. But she cannot see the expression on his face when he looks at her look at the painting. Yu Liu secretly learns how to paint later - and when he leaves again, after saving her, because the soldiers from heaven will be coming to chase him - that painting is left.

  Many things happen.... when Yu Liu asked Little Mushroom to trust him, she still protected him and loved him - but to resolve the misunderstanding, they had to go to the heart of the enemies' headquarters. There was a trap - and to save her, Yu Liu got poisoned. He became blind. He became deaf. Finally, to save her home, he completely sacrificed himself. He broke free of his human body, with the determination of death, and became the all powerful dragon G.o.d to save her and her home.

   Where they are, how they are - no one knows. Although sometimes, some people in some streets are said to have seen a green robed figure placing a hair pin into a grey-robed girl's hair. Their hands tightly entwined, their bodies gently leaning towards each other.