Breaking Free from the Other Shore

The vast primordial wilderness stretches without end,

Its strange and wondrous world filled with gods and ghosts.

Since Pangu split open the primordial chaos,

Heaven and earth have been divided into clear and turbid.

Immortals and demons vie for supremacy, and war smoke fills the sky.

The virtuous earth runs red with blood.

China lies shattered, its fate drifting like windblown willow catkins.

Through ten thousand years of rise and fall, hardship drags on.

To learn how the Demon Lord escapes his predicament,

Read The Mysterious Gate of Heaven and Earth.

Across the vast land of China, the struggle between the righteous and demonic factions has endured unchanged for a thousand years. The calamity of the ancient Witches and Demons has continued to this day, and the war between immortals and demons has never ceased. She was fierce by nature. During the second Investiture of the Gods, she defied her sect. In the end, even he, who had attained the Dao and become one with the primordial, could not save her. He could only watch as her life faded away.

She had defied a Sage, yet even after being placed on the Investiture of the Gods, she found no peace. Banished to the mortal realm, she became a flower on the far shore, doomed to be separated for all eternity from the one she loved. When the flower blooms, its leaves fall; they can never meet again. Could heaven and earth truly be so cruel?

And yet: Heaven and earth are not benevolent, treating all things like straw dogs? No!

In truth, the heart of Heaven is most compassionate, treating all equally!

Now see how he searches...

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