Tea wafted through the teahouse, where the orphan Lin Wan grew up. She possessed a supernatural ability to peer into people's hearts, unaware that it was the cruel curse of an ancient power known as the "Wail."
As the executioner's blade descended in Burning Heaven City, her father thrust a rough clay teapot into her hands. It corroded the ground. The silver markings on her right arm resonated with an ancient altar, and Tear Tribe warriors came to her rescue, though greed lurked in their eyes. The truth was that Lin Wan was an artificially created "Empty Cocoon," a dangerous defective product born after the Seven Trees Covenant fell apart.
"If the world is a tale written by the gods, then I will wipe away the blood that stains its pages." Lin Wan spoke without hesitation. The Tear Tribe harvested emotions to feed fear demons, Burning Heaven City sought to clone the gods, and the Heartmare sect wove a cycle of destruction.
Facing these conspiracies, Lin Wan stood fearless. She swallowed the rage and dust of the battlefield, commanded chains of crystal, and fed her blood to the teapot, becoming the "uncontrollable variable" in their schemes. In the dungeon, the power of a thousand jealousies corrupted the prison; before the abyss, she played in harmony with a zither player to suppress the Mother Tree. At last, she swallowed a false Heart Fruit and sealed the Heartmare inside a cocoon. The seven-tree totem on its surface turned out to be the remains of a god…
