[Two female leads, corruption and a comeback, face-slapping, and the awakening of their bloodlines]
I was a mistake from the moment I was born.
The Shen and Chu clans used forbidden arts to carve out my Divine Phoenix bone, forcing my parents to trade years of their lives for my bloodline. And they claimed it was for my own good?
“Li’er, the clan has raised you for a hundred years. It’s time you repaid us.”
When the elders tried to extract my soul and sacrifice it to the heavens, I crushed the backbone they had manipulated into submission.
On the day my ice-crystal sword pierced the clan’s star chart, my nemesis Xie Mingwei arrived beneath the moon, dragging half a bloodstained star track behind her. “Want to team up? The kind where we turn the entire cultivation world upside down.”
Later...
Beneath the ninth heavenly tribulation, I snapped the ancestral Phoenix banners of the Shen and Chu clans. Behind me stood a young sword spirit, a qilin from the demon race in human form.
Xie Mingwei stepped on an enemy’s crown and laughed. “Who says the Divine Phoenix bloodline can only save the world? I’ll make these thirty-three heavens wear mourning clothes for the heroic spirits of my people!”
And deep in a forbidden land thousands of miles away, a third Divine Phoenix’s name slowly appeared on the Heavenly Dao stele we had shattered with our own hands...