[Two equally strong leads + mutual devotion + plot-driven + slow burn]
For a million years, the Divine Realm had governed the gods, demons, ghosts, humans, and immortals, the four realms and four races. Throughout those million years, however, the Divine Realm had continually oppressed the demon race. At last, unable to endure the humiliation any longer, the new generation’s Demon King led the demons in a campaign against the Divine Realm.
After a battle that shook heaven and earth, the demon race was wiped out and the gods of the Divine Realm fell, leaving only a handful of divine names in the records.
Yet hundreds of thousands of years after the battle, the dead demons’ souls remained, their murderous energy surging until it eventually gathered into demons that wreaked havoc on the mortal world.
The Divine Realm’s sole ruler, the White Emperor, sacrificed his divine soul to seal them away.
Several thousand years later, in the Immortal Realm’s Fanyin Forest, its new ruler, Shi Mingjing, brought back a child from the mortal world.
At the apprenticeship ceremony a few days later, everyone was astonished.
“Immortal Lord Mingjing hasn’t taken a disciple in thousands of years.”
“Where did this child come from?”
“He doesn’t have a trace of immortal power. Could he be mortal?”
“What makes him worthy of becoming Immortal Lord Mingjing’s disciple?”
But less than a thousand years later, that child sat upon the divine throne, looking down at everyone with his chin propped on one hand. Smiling, he asked, “Immortal Lords, am I worthy of being my master’s disciple now?”
The Immortal Lords: “...”
