She was Zhu Lan'er, a girl from a mountain village who should have grown up under her parents' protection. But on the eve of her tenth birthday, she watched them die at the hands of the immortal and demon factions over a blood-red bead. The bead was called the Soul-Devouring Pearl. It was the mark of the demonic bloodline she was born with, and a deadly treasure coveted by both the immortal sects and the demon clan.
Flames consumed her home, and her parents fell in a pool of blood. Zhu Lan'er was reborn with the burning hatred of the Soul-Devouring Pearl. In her previous life, the righteous sects had hailed her as a “Spirit Maiden,” then accused her of being a demon because she possessed the pearl, leaving her soul shattered. In this life, she crawls out of a mountain of corpses and vows to make the hypocritical immortal sects and brutal demon clan pay for their blood debts!
When an elder of Qingyun Peak raises his sword in the name of “ridding the world of demons,” and the demon clan chief tries to force her into submission in the name of “returning to her bloodline,” Zhu Lan'er sneers and activates the Soul-Devouring Pearl:
“The immortal sects call me a demon seed? Then let this pearl devour every last bit of your hypocrisy!”
“The demon clan wants to use me as a vessel? Then I'll use your souls to pay tribute to my parents' spirits!”
She refines the demonic pearl with a mortal body, tempers her soul amid poisonous miasma and spiritual energy, wields righteous sword techniques in her left hand, and commands demonic miasma with her right. She fights her way from Xinghua Village to the Ninth Heaven. All those who once bullied, humiliated, and harmed her now tremble beneath the blood-red glow of the Soul-Devouring Pearl
“The Spirit Maiden is reborn and has returned to defy fate. This time, both the immortal and demon factions will kneel before me!”
