I: Our new cdrama is about an orphaned doofus who steals the identity of a banished god after accidentally killing him and uses it to get into a prestigious martial arts sect and there are dragons and bird planes and magic paper crane letters and an evil fox demon chained up in a cave that they really should block the entrance to
M: Hey Goddess, I'm Suddenly Enrolled at Martial Arts High after Killing a God and now there are Dragons and Bird Planes and an Evil Fox Demon!! How am I supposed to roll a rock??
M: one of the classic hero journeys
I: Oh no you see there is a rock which is the other banished god who was a rock but then the banished god spent so much time doing meditation by the rock that her rock spirit cultivated into human shape
M: hey babes, want to be a rock... in front of a cave?
I: Well the female lead as a small child went into the cave which again has not been sealed in any way and the imprisoned fox spirit was like hey little girl want this pretty flower PSYCH now you're demon poisoned with the seed of a demon fox and then when she's grown up and she's worried the rock is going to steal the fake god from her because the rock and the god are destined lovers so she goes to the fox spirit and is like hey teach me the forbidden demon arts so I can be more powerful than the rock
M: this is probably covered in the martial arts highschool teacher handbook
I: Everyone thinks he's the banished god because when they were banished the rock gave the god a little pendant made of some of her and the fake god stole that before dumping the god's body so the rock is like you're my dude you have that pendant made from my flesh
M: uj/ this is a lot more highschool than i intended!
I: the actual banished god who was killed got found by guys from the evil martial arts school and they did some magic shit to preserve his soul and transplant it into an unsuspecting student so he is around with patchy and imperfect memories and powers
M: theres usually one in most highschools, not even restricting to martial arts high school
I: So we're nine episodes in
M: wait does that mean to-now is a warmup, or half the runtime
I: Warmup
I: There's like forty episodes
M: well then i anticipate second semester
I: Right now they're on a field trip to defeat or stop the birth of the great dark bamboo serpent from the waters of a city and the girl poisoned with fox spirit wants to fight the rock who's now engaged to the fake god who's like oh god I really regret pretending to be this god and want to do take-backsies but he's already had a conversation with the principal who was like IT WOULD REALLY BE BAD FOR EVERYONE IF IT TURNED OUT YOU WEREN'T THE BANISHED GOD WE WOULD ALL BE EMBARRASSED AND THE REPUTATION OF THE SCHOOL WOULD SUFFER AND ALSO PROBABLY A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD WANT TO KILL YOU
M: i'd like to step back and ask if the actual cdrama has a martial arts highschool or if you're just translating all this on the fly (both are good)
M: and if you need to step back and ask yourself the same question, that's even better
I: They're cultivation sects but the protagonist is like 16ish when the series starts so it's basically like a high school where you learn how to do punches and flying swords
M: that counts, i'll take it!
I: Three years have passed since he accidentally killed a god by making a light fixture fall on him
M: Thank you for confirming that chinese progresion fantasy is basically muppets
I: And then the protagonist and his adoptive parents who are criminals who run a robbery inn load the god into a wagon and take him into the desert and dump him off a cliff