The Mystic Art

[Wuxia + Xuanhuan + Cultivation + Romance + Revenge + Emotion]

[Main characters: Yun Zhan: male, possessor of the Secret Essentials; Yun Sheng (Ming Yue): female, Yun Zhan's younger sister; Xiao Yuli: female, eldest princess; Xie Zhiwei: female, master of the qin and sword; Helian Zhen: male villain, prince]

[Supporting characters: the Old Mute Servant: male; Lu Mo: male, master of mechanical devices; Yelü Jinglei: male, Wolf Lord of the Northern Desert; Su Zhenhuan: female, blind fortune-teller; Xuanjizi: male, reclusive master; Chiyou Lu: male villain, demigod; Gudu: male villain, Grand Shaman; Wushu: male villain, national preceptor of the Northern Desert; and others]

[Synopsis: On the night his family was destroyed, his seven-year-old sister vanished in a sea of flames... The night wind swept ashes and the sickeningly sweet stench of burning into Yun Zhan's nose and throat. He curled up in the gaps between cold corpses like an abandoned young beast. Each breath brought a ripping pain beneath his ribs. The heavy blow of a sword's back had just fallen, plunging him into darkness before reluctantly spitting him back into this earthly hell. Beneath him, the sticky sensation might have been mud or blood that had yet to cool. The thick, suffocating stench of death weighed heavily on his chest. In his ears were the wind fanning the flames into a furious roar, the crackle of wood bursting in the blaze, and... and the shrill cries of a little girl growing fainter and fainter, until the flames swallowed them whole. “Ah Sheng!”]