On the day of the sect’s grand selection, the junior sister my senior brother had brought back from the mortal world suddenly announced to everyone that she was the surviving heir of the Beast Taming Sect’s former sect master.
And that I was an impostor.
I tried to explain, but the spirit beasts I’d raised for hundreds of years turned on me at my junior sister’s command and bit through my neck.
Everyone cheered as they made my junior sister the new sect master of the Beast Taming Sect.
They threw my mangled body into the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts, where my soul was slowly devoured.
Even as my consciousness faded, I couldn’t understand: spirit beasts only ever recognize one master. How had Ling Xiang’er made mine betray me?
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day my junior sister first joined the sect.
