Name: Chronicles of the Phantom Realm
Author: Chrysanthemum Fragrance

Synopsis

With a blade in hand, he can never slay all the demons and monsters in the world; with a heart both fierce and tender, he cannot escape the turmoil of the age. Divine arts and sacred scriptures cannot evade a treacherous world; loyalty that reaches the clouds is no match for a world swept by chaos. Who is right and who is wrong? Each merely serves their own master. Demon or monster, god or ghost, it all depends on the will of Heaven and the human heart.

Sacred spirit blood, a child’s pure heart, an elixir of immortality lasting ten thousand years; Nether Mountain, the Skeleton Sect, the White Lotus rises and the cosmos falls; the Earth Treasury Pavilion, the Soul-Rejection Order, a fight to the death, Parrot Tower...

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