Ashes of a Fleeting Life

Ashes of Mortal Life

Plot Summary:

When chaos first took shape, the Primordial Jade Wall shattered into three supreme treasures of the three realms: the Nine Heavens Celestial Mirror of the Immortal Realm, the Map of Mountains and Rivers of the Mortal Realm, and the Bone-Eroding Heart-Burning Cauldron of the Demon Realm. The three realms maintained a fragile balance until five hundred years ago, when Xuanming, master of Taixu Palace, slaughtered the divine clan to seize the treasures. He was killed by his close friend, the High God Cangming, with his life-bound sword, Ashes of Mortal Life. After the sword shattered, its thousand fragments of spirit jade scattered across the mortal world.

Yunzhao is a half-demon girl, born of human and demon blood, who runs a tea house for the afflicted in the mortal world. She can see the threads of fate connecting all things, but the seal inside her holds the last fragment of Ashes of Mortal Life’s sword spirit, making her a target. Her true identity is a vessel reincarnated by the High God Cangming to suppress the remnant soul of Xuanming. The twin flames of her soul are about to awaken on the night of the lunar eclipse.

The aloof and proud High God Chonglin, the Heavenly Court’s divine judge and reincarnation of Cangming, is ordered to kill the demoness who threatens the world. But as he points his sword at Yunzhao’s throat, the starry fate chart reflected in her eyes jolts his memories. The soul-binding chain around his neck, strung with three hundred spirit jades, suddenly shatters, and the emotions sealed away for a hundred years return to him. It turns out that Cangming once forged his emotions into Ashes of Mortal Life to suppress his dear friend. Their karma across lifetimes has been intertwined ever since.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.