The sword bone in his palm is named Snowfall. It once cleaved a dragon's soul; now it lies buried with the beauty who brought the city to ruin.
Xu Nian'an rescued Gu Qingcheng from the frozen abyss. In her eyes shimmered fragments of starlight that this world could not abide. Their feelings grew like vines, twining around the sword's edge and his Daoist heart, until Heaven's punishment fell. Having glimpsed the reflection of "reality," she shattered in his arms into a hundred thousand flakes of snow, leaving behind seven drops of icy crystal.
He descended into demonic paths and strode into the underworld! The Snowfall Sword rang out, drinking the blood of divine officials. As its sword spirit awakened, memories of the past burned into view: he had once been Ling Chen, the bone-forger who burned the heavens and slew the gods. And Chu Yu, the present-day divine official who ruled the "Heavenly Law" from above the clouds, frost and snow in her eyes, was in fact the half-flame that had never been lost in the fire that consumed him!
The sword split the ninefold gates of heaven. As the divine throne toppled, the "Eye of Creation" opened and closed indifferently in the void.
"This world is but the embers left by destruction; your love is a wound in logic."
Twin blossoms offered their fleeting beauty as a sacrifice to the eternal night:
Chu Yu burned away her golden crown, using divine blood as a guide to set the Heavenly Law ablaze and split the star map.
Gu Qingcheng's soul returned to the sword spirit; a dragon's cry shattered jade as she merged with the frost and snow and severed the cycle of reincarnation.
When Snowfall hung in the corridor of eternal silence, transformed into a nameless memorial,
he finally understood:
The most searing loneliness is to bury, with your own hands, a paradise built on illusion,
then keep watch for eternity over the two names
that Heaven erased from the star map.
One was the snow of Gu Qingcheng; the other, the flame that burned the world.
At the end of the immortal path you seek, will you find eternal life, or be trapped forever in spring within the star map of logic?
