The Azure Luan's Long Song

In late spring, a sudden upheaval shakes the world. Lu Bai, a thousand-year-old white snake, is captured by Bi Fang. Princess Ling Shu of the Qingluan clan saves him on a whim, unknowingly unveiling a deadly karmic trap laid ten thousand years ago. The ancient God-Slaying Bell reappears, a Chaos Green Lotus gives birth to tribulation fire, and the inverse scales of Zhulong, buried beneath an avalanche in the Western Kunlun Mountains, reveal a heaven-slaying conspiracy by the first Witch Ancestor, who wields love as a blade.

Ling Shu makes a pact with her life-feather, while Lu Bai carves out his inverse scales to make a sheath. A blood pact born of a chance act of kindness becomes the key to overturning the will of Heaven. When the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife pierces the star chart and the Eye of Guixu reflects the thirty-three heavens beyond, they finally understand that this so-called tribulation of love is merely a game of chess played by the gods.

From their first meeting at the Jade Pool to their shared doom at Guixu, from gouging out hearts to calm souls to rebirth amid lotus embers, this god-slaying dance, with all living beings as its wager, cycles through one hundred and eight thousand tribulations between Qingluan's true fire and Zhulong's starlight. At last, the bronze bell set with fragments of the Ziwei Star, aboard the starship in the peach grove, rings at the edge of the starry sea. The cruelest killing move, it turns out, is the escape route a god carves for the one they love.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.