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the vision of a narrow-eyed SJ leaning in a mass of discarded robes, turning look at the door lazily.

SJ being vulnerable in his own space to smoke and having someone walk in on it is lowkey like so fire to me idk how to explain it

it works really well w/ LiuJiu because I don't really imagine anyone else barging into SJ's space the way he does.

Bonus points if it's a super bad habit that SJ picked up with his little trips to the brothel so you just have the sight of LQG barging in and seeing SJ trying to smoke for the first time on his own, wide eyed and bristled wwwwwwwww

Your usual AU where Ming Fan qi-deviates and gets PIDW!Ming Fan’s memories, then tries to save the entire world (somehow bagging Luo Binghe in the process).

Just sketches bc I'm LAZYYYYYYY

And he does eventually find the entrance to their hidden city, wrought in the side of a mountain. He’s able to pass through the broken down gates, traveling the maze like passageways of the mountain to… a ghost city. Old enough that any wood structures have already crumpled to rot. At a central spot in the city, there’s what appears to be a cross between a smithy and a temple. When Luo Binghe enters, he’s immediately drawn to a sword sunken in a central display, radiating power. The aura is at least as strong as Xin Mo, but it’s calming. It calls to him the same way Zheng Yang once did, many years ago; safe and reassuring.

As he goes to draw it from its pedestal, the lines of an ancient array go taught, trapping him in a powerful web of qi. It wrenches his body, breaking his bones and melting his skin, his mind frozen in torment as he is shrunken down into a Nine Torments Hound— a type of yaogui dog that appears to be almost made of mildew and drowned. They’re not violent, only able to cause harm accidentally from the spores they shed, which can cause sickness in mortals and weak demons. They are universally shunned creatures.

At this point the narration shifts, implying that Luo Binghe’s mind was taken in the transformation. He leaves the abandoned city in search of food, and is immediately wounded terribly by a stronger demonic beast. Days later on the brink of death, a wild woman finds him, and actually takes doghe back to her home to nurse him back to health, despite the risk to her own wellbeing. She’s almost unrealistically kind, and doghe is completely devoted.

One day the same beast that attacked doghe comes back to ravage the woman’s homestead. Doghe tries to defend her, but the wild woman can’t stand to see her companion injured. She kills the beast at great personal expense, mortal wounds incidentally revealing her to be some kind of mushroom spirit. Someone that doghe wouldn’t have been able to harm. With her last bit of strength, she drags herself up to kiss doghe’s little forehead and call him a good boy, before dying. It turned out this was a princess and the frog type plot, and doghe turns back into human Binghe, watching the wild woman decompose in front of him, her mushroom biology rejecting his blood.

Meanwhile, about 5 years ago Shen Yuan woke up as a mushroom spirit in PIDW and he's just been hanging out, exploring the nearby ruins, stealing cool swords... Having vivid flashbacks to being a woman dying in Luo Binghe's arms... You know normal stuff.

The idea of Luo Binghe personally murdering Mobei-jun’s dad, just for the sake of marrying his mother— and in doing so becoming Mobei-jun’s stepdad— is super funny to me. Let Shen Yuan play up his MILF vibes to maximum effect!

Also, imagine Shen Yuan using his position as Mobei-jun’s beloved mother to harass the heck out of Airplane. As a demon mother and queen, it’s only natural for him to make his son’s prospective spouse undergo dramatic loyalty trials, right? Shen Yuan has so many ideas, most of which related to the various trials Airplane made Bing-ge go through in PIDW. (He’s unexpectedly accepting of the gay thing because, well, all the women are for Binghe, right?)

Peerless Cucumber, the MIL from hell. 🔥🥒🔥

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Since the Mobei-clan is made up of ice demons, I tend to imagine Mobei-jun got his shadow portal ability from his mother’s side. This would likely make Shen Yuan some form of shadow demon, with his own teleportation abilities.

He probably transmigrated in when the original goods was meant to die, while Mobei-jun was only a few years old. While he can’t prevent the whole Huan Hua kidnapping arc (the System insists) Shen Yuan ends up quite the helicopter mom afterwards. He shadows his son everywhere— often in a human male disguise— and only reveals ‘himself’ in his full ‘MILF demon queen’ glory after Mobei-jun has finished off all his enemies, to praise and dote on him.

Of course, being Shen Yuan, he also takes advantage of his teleportation abilities to sneak away and offer stealthy bits of assistance to Binghe as well. This definately leads the future demon lords to some nasty bouts of feuding even before the Abyss tossing incident. (Mobei-jun trying to make Binghe’s night hunts harder so he’ll stay away from his mother).

The motivation for Mobei-jun removing Luo Binghe’s seal during the Immortal Alliance Conference in this case is probably a bit more malicious… though when the man successfully survives both his peak lord master’s attempt to kill him and the abyss, Binghe earns Mobei-jun’s begrudging respect.

To Shen Yuan’s horror, Mobei-jun later replicates Shen Yuan’s worthiness trials for Airplane x100 before he’ll consider Binghe an acceptable stepfather. Shen Yuan has no idea how his idiot son got away with commanding the demon emperor to do all those insane tasks without getting them all killed!!!

SY lives in the forest (harpies are quite large compared to humans in this au, how else would they pick up humans and carry them away to eat them?) and spends his time collecting trinkets and works of human literature (transmigrated a while ago and somewhat unaware that he’s in PIDW). It’s hard to read the mentioned literature—human works are very tiny and extremely fragile beneath his clawed hands (will include a picture of how his wings work lol)—so he mainly collects them for decoration if anything. He’s friendly to those that wake up early to gather vegetables from his part of the forest (relatively safer since many of the more intelligent threats refuse to linger where a harpy has settled) as well as to the people that hunt for food in the near area.

Seeing his lack of hostility has made village people less afraid to interact with him and has resulted in a rumor along the lines of “There’s a friendly beast in the forest.” Of course despite this many people still steer clear of SY when he’s around and don’t linger when they are near him. This makes for a pretty lonely life.

Or well it did

Insert Shen Jiu, and Yue Qi. Two little street rats that happened to be chased into the forest after being chased by a stall owner (they’d stolen some bread from them). They would’ve certainly been caught if not for Shen Yuan’s convenient arrival, his large wings nearly blanketing the sky (exaggeration, he’s not /THAT/ big) as he landed in the small clearing the kids had been forced into, the bloody remains of a moose—a large hulking beast that even a skilled hunter would think twice about confronting—clutched in his talons.

He didn’t notice them at first—not with how small they were. The stall owner that’d been chased backed off rather quickly when Shen Yuan cocked his head and inquired why they were this far in the forest. The terrifying sight of a creature known to eat men looking at you curiously with blood splattered across its face would be unnerving to anyone, so looking back Shen Yuan couldn’t really blame them for screaming and running.

SY turns to his hunt for the day and instead comes face to face with two children clinging on to one another like their life depends on it. On the ground a few feet away was a torn piece of bread—most likely attached to the piece that Shen Yuan had crushed under his talons during his landing. It seems that the sight of him appearing had startled the kids into tossing their food.

Either due to pity or what remaining humanity SY had, SY finds himself tearing off a leg of deer and tossing it over to the children like an offering. They flinch back of course—but SY’s already lifting his kill back up w/ his hands this time and carrying it off to the nearby stream in the clearing.

Tbh I’m tired

Www here’s how SY’s wings/hands look

Sorry for the bad drawing it’s 1 am www

SVSSS omegaverse spinoff mamaLIU where Shen Yuan is the result of a one night stand between omega SQQ and omega LQG (false mating, it's super rare to get pregnant though).

SQQ isn't aware of the child until one day LQG drops off a child that is the spitting image of him to the bamboo hut. He's like "Shen Qingqiu I'll be gone for a week" and SQQ's jaw is on the floor.

YEAH LMAO NOBODY NOTICED LQG WAS PREGNANT LOLOL

For the first few months his bump wasn’t visible and when it started becoming visible he was out more often hunting beasts that he himself would eat because of the weird cravings. So because he was out more often and was usually in-and-out whenever he came back to the sect nobody really noticed any physical changes. Super funny because one of the other PLS sees him (heavily pregnant) and they go “hm.. Your hair looks glossier, did you start a routine?” And LQG’s like “Probably the baby” and the PL just laughs and is like “Haha okay keep your secrets” playing it off as a joke.

After birth he was out of commission for like a week before he was back up and he’s over here breastfeeding in the middle of a fight. Shen Yuan’s at least a toddler by this point about like 1 1/2-2 years old, so he’s ready to be weaned off but since LQG’s from a noble background he was SPOILED as a child and thinks it’s normal to constantly feed SY because that’s how he was raised.

When the switch happens SJ’s like holy fuck why haven’t you weaned him off of milk and LQG’s like “what do you mean he’s not even half the size of me when I was his age”

SY looking at SJ around the time LQG usually feeds him and SJ raising his brow like “There’s no milk for you here.” And then SY scrunches up his face and starts babbling very upset noises.

SY DEF HAS SJ’S GLARE AND RESTING BITCH FACE. Every time he stares at SJ randomly SJ tuts at him and pinches his little nose (not painfully) and like goes “and why exactly are you glaring at me?”

SJ & LQG not knowing how to parent is so funny because LQG putting SY on the floor and leaving a blade in front of him expectantly only for SJ to go “No you brute!” Before placing a book in front of SY like “early education is much more important” (HE KNOWS THAT IT’S JUMPING THE GUN BUT HE’S NERVOUS AS THIS IS HIS ONLY CHILD AND HE DOESNKT WANT SY TO SUFFER TOO BUT HE’S HORRIBLY DYSFUNCTIONAL)

SQQ freaks out for a day before he gathers himself (he’s still freaking out internally but Xiao-Yuan’s charm is very strong)

He just goes to the WRP w/ Xiao-yuan to get some baby supplies and the girls there coo

It’s like

“Oh my god who is this? SJ when did you give birth?! Who’s the sire?!”

And SJ’s like “I’m the sire”

And had to explain how he knocked up LQG of all people

ALSO YEAH While LQG’s off on his dangerous mission SJ gets attached and when LQG comes back SJ’s like “This is my child now I’m keeping him” and LQG’s like “Okay I’ll come get him next week then and we can swap every two weeks if you want” and SJ’s like “make it two months” and they have a stand off before they come to an agreement of just switching every month.

ALSO YES I LOVE UR IDEA ABOUT SWITCHING DURING A PL MEETING

LQG holding Xiao-Yuan up against his chest, wiping a bit of drool off of the corner of SY’s mouth as he enters. All of the PLs go silent like “What is that” and LQG’s like “My son”

And then SQQ walks in, looks around searching for LQG before walking up to him and plucking SY out of his hands like “There you are. You’ll get him back next month” and the PLs like “What happened to your rivalry,,,”

SY NORMALLY DOESN’T GET FUSSY BUT WHEN HE DOES IT TRIGGERS THE MAMALIUJIU LIKE OMG

But Shen Yuan? Oh he's a full blown music cultivator alright. He can sing like the best of them and will definitely scratch that itch sqh has been feeling for DECADES. SQH will totally bribe SY with new shitty novels too.

Gimme SY singing scandalous modern songs for SQH. Love songs, Angsty af songs, all that jazz

Shen jiu moment

SCREAMS /POS

I LOVE THIS I MUCH THOSE ARE STUNNING WINGS!!;

VERY ECIL THOUGHTS RIGHT NOw

mega-phauna

Each peak has a resident herd of celestial spirit-animals. Qing Qing Peak has Unicorns. Territorial, reclusive beasts that tend their own, not letting maiden nor young boy touch them. Not even considering older disciples, or the peak lords. So, isn't it a surprise when that Quong Ding Head Disciple boy goes missing from the caves, he comes back with a snarly feral, sootstained creature that is constantly followed by no less than three of the ivory-haired beasts?

That they treat him like their brass-haired young, shielding him behind their sabre-horns and leading him to the rich spirit grasses and flowers to bolster his damaged cultivation? I just think that shen 'rumored on cqms to be a human-cultivated unicorn' jiu is such a fun idea. like. yeah hes a mean little bitch as he grows up but his spiritual beast mothers made sure he knew a bit more love than in canon

SCEEAMS SCRWMAS. UNICORN SJ AGENDA WOOO HELL YAH!! WAIT IS SJ LIKE ALWAYS THERE WITH THE UNICORNS? OR DID THEY LIKE GO SAVE HIM? OUM… YQY PLEADING WITH THE UNICORNS TO GO SAVE SJ AND THE UNICORNS SMELL SJ’S SCENT AND THEY)RE LIKE “HOLY HELL ONE OF OUR KIDS IS IN DANGER!!” IS SJ PART UNICORN? GONNA WRITE THEM GOING DOWN TO SAVE SJ THIS TIME BUT IF SJ WAS WITH THEM ALL ALONG I HAVE AN IDEA FOR THAT TOO X3, SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG

-Takes your idea and turns it into origami-

The unicorns of Qing Jing peak were notorious for their foul tempers, soothed not by purity or power the beasts were as aloof as they were prideful. They bowed only when using those crystalline horns to pierce the flesh of their foes. Their mercy is a gift not bestowed often, reserved for members of their own kind rather than humans. Territorial and ill-tempered, with a towering size that was more than enough to back their attitudes up. No cultivator dared to get too close, for there was never a way to tell whether you’d be the next to become the dirt beneath those hooves.

The unicorns tend to come and go when they please, rarely ever descending the mountains. When the head disciple of Qiong Ding peak goes missing while confined in the caves for recuperation nobody thinks much of it. The boy had been trying to go down the mountain before confined, perhaps this was his attempt at being rebellious. He’d turn up soon enough, the unicorns frequented the Qi-dense caves—they’d certainly chase Yue Qingyuan out if he was roaming around in there.

Nobody pays it that much attention until people spot the unicorns of Qing Ding at the bottom of the mountain, three of them to be exact. Their steps were thunderous, heads are raised with a type of pride only a beast of their caliber could possess. Beneath them was a trail of blood, their white coats dyed a deep crimson. The largest of the three had a body dangling from its horn, penetrated through the neck. Their victorious cries traveled far and wide as they walked. Not many noticed the children walking in front of the herd at first, when they did Qiong Ding’s sect leader was informed immediately.

There, followed by three of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect’s most temperamental beasts, was a rugged-looking Yue Qingyuan. By his side was a feral looking child—too dirty to discern the gender of—holding onto Yue Qingyuan’s sleeve with a wary intensity. When the sect leader arrived at the scene, standing before both child and beast, he wasn’t sure what to expect. Wasn’t quite sure what to do either. Yue Qingyuan held the child her was with closely, looking at the sect leader with a determination that rivaled the intensity of his determination when he first came to the sect. There was one option here, a fact clear to both the sect leader children themselves.

“…I’ll be monitoring your cultivation closely.”

The sect leader said after a tense standoff. This much was enough to maintain his dignity while offering a compromise. Not explicitly giving in yet not denying anything either. Yue Qingyuan bowed his head in thanks, thanking his Shizun loud enough to cooperate with his teacher’s desire to save face. It was a small price to pay for keeping Shen Jiu at the sect. The sect leader let his gaze linger on the interesting sight for a while before he turned and flew back up the mountain, sparing nary a glance nor a word. Yue Qingyuan just pulled Shen Jiu forward, his heart beating loudly in his ears as he recounted the events leading up to the moment.

The negativity brewing in Yue Qingyuan’s heart had attracted a Unicorn. As creatures of the divine, it was not so pleased with the amount of negativity being produced—it approached Yue Qingyuan with a bowed head and a flicking tail. Yue Qingyuan could do nothing but grip his sword and watch the beast closely. Though once it got close enough it paused, smelling Yue Qingyuan intensely.

Yue Qingyuan didn’t move, he just let the creature sniff at him. He hadn’t had much of a chance to wash up when he’d been trapped, immobilized for the greater half of his stay in the cave. That was apparently a good thing though because the unicorn’s somewhat primitive voice rang out somewhere within his head.

“Speak. Where is foal?”

Yue Qingyuan didn’t know what to say. He hadn’t seen anything besides this unicorn, much less any foals. The unicorn seemed adamant that Yue Qingyuan knew about a foal though. Yue Qingyuan tried to think, tried to recall even the slightest sign of a unicorn—but his mind kept traveling to Shen Jiu.

“That one! Yes. That foal. Where?”

The unicorn tapped Yue Qingyuan’s head with its horn, hard enough to hurt but light enough to avoid a major injury. ‘Xiao-Jiu?’ Yue Qingyuan thought, wondering if he was missing something. The Unicorn tapped his head again, harder this time.

“Yes! Yes!”

Yue Qingyuan grasped at the opportunity to escape and go get Shen Jiu. He was nearly stumbling over his words as he pointed towards the sealed exit of the cave.

“Down the mountain—he’s in trouble I need to find him.”