The Immortal Path of Jiangzhu: The Calamity of Worldly Desires

Introduction to The Vermilion Pearl Immortal Path: The Tribulation of Mortal Longing

Lin Wan, a gifted archaeology student, transmigrates by accident into the cultivation world as Hua Nian'er, an orphan, after touching a jade pendant carved with vermilion pearl patterns. The moment she opens her eyes, demon wolves are hunting her. She is saved by the white-robed Immortal Venerable He Yuchen, but why does he look at the birthmark on her neck with such inexplicable familiarity?

After joining the Lingxiao Immortal Domain as his disciple, she learns that her master is actually an immortal who came to life from a polygonum root. On nights of the full moon, he takes on a fragile form that is half man, half vine. Cold and self-restrained, he has been haunted by inner demons for a thousand years after slaying his dearest friend, yet he makes an exception for her alone: he braves the Forest of Ten Thousand Poisons to protect her, takes a deadly demonic miasma meant for her, and even gouges out his own immortal bone to refine a heart-protecting pill when she is cursed with the Heartless Gu.

But her transmigration was no accident. It was a trap laid by the Demon Venerable Ye Xuan. The sea of vermilion pearl flowers that keeps appearing in her dreams, the woman who looks exactly like her, and half a polygonum-root jade pendant all conceal unresolved grudges from three lifetimes. When the rift in the secret realm opens wide and war between immortals and demons erupts, she awakens her vermilion pearl bloodline and finally understands the weight behind his words: “Protecting you has nothing to do with the rules of the immortals.”

“Master, if I am your tribulation, then I will face it with you.”

“Nian'er, if the Six Realms want you dead, I will defy them all.”

A master-disciple romance spanning time and space, hiding the truth behind the protection of a secret realm and a mortal longing that will endure until death. When vermilion pearl flowers bloom across the cliffs, did he plant them to wish her peace year after year, or is she the one who has waited a thousand years for him?