Relations among the Four Realms were tense, and war could break out at any moment. A thousand years later, on that fateful day, every flower along the banks of the Underworld bloomed at once. The waters of the Yellow Springs boiled, the Eighteen Levels of Hell shook, and a baby appeared on the Three Lives Stone. Ming Ren, the King of the Underworld, tried to divine the child’s fate but found no answer. With celestial signs behaving strangely as well, he sent the baby to the sect leader of Jiuhua Sect after much deliberation. Seventeen years later, Sang Ling sneaked down the mountain, only to break a glass ornament at the Taozhu Inn. Unable to pay for it, she was made to stay and work as a servant to pay off the debt.
