Phoenix Ballad of the Nine Palaces

She was the last tear Nuwa shed as she fell. After enduring heavenly tribulations, she cultivated herself into a god. Of the eighty-one thunderbolts, only the one meant to test her through love was missing, leaving her divine nature incomplete. Before the Immortal Execution Platform, she wore a cool, detached expression as she performed the soul-mending art that would condemn her to eternal torment. She saved the woman he loved with all his heart, yet she could never compare to the woman in his arms. With her heart turned to ashes, she blew up her own primordial spirit to escape the divine punishment descending from the heavens. Unexpectedly, at the crucial moment, the sacred artifact of the Water Department shielded her from part of the force. Only one soul and one spirit remained, drifting down to the mortal realm with the shattered artifact... He was descended from the nine-tailed celestial fox. One fleeting glance at the Holy Mother of Yaochi was all it took for him to fall deeply in love. Legend has it that a nine-tailed celestial fox forms only one core in its lifetime, forged from the threads of love. When love breaks, the core shatters, and when the core shatters, the fox dies... Legend says that when heaven and earth first formed, the phoenix sang nine songs: the first summoned souls, the second calmed them, and the third mended them. The first song of soul-calming echoed through the heavens, the second settled the earth, the third swept through the underworld, and the fourth brought life to mortal souls... She could mend the countless souls in the world, but she alone could not mend his...