A Kui, the lowest-ranking sunflower fairy in the immortal realm, secretly descends to the mortal world to help the Golden Crow Lord overcome his tribulation of love, hoping to repay him for once shining down on her. But when she returns to the immortal realm, Lord Xihe casts her into an inferno of ice and fire that burns her soul and corrodes her bones.
At death’s door, her childhood friend, the little black snake Xuan Lin, shields her from Heaven’s punishment with his own flesh and blood. After surviving the calamity, A Kui awakens her divine bloodline and flees to the mortal world with the badly wounded little black snake in her arms, swearing to burn away her former innocence.
She joins a secluded immortal sect, forming a sun-wheel seal with one hand to slay demons and vanquish evil, while raising spirit pets, snacking on seeds, and cultivating with the other. From the northern ice fields to the Demon Abyss of Guixu, the bloodstained sunflower becomes a god of death feared throughout the Three Realms, only to discover that the little black snake at her side is getting stranger and stranger…
