After the gentle Wen Wanruo, a fairy from the Lotus Pool, falls to the mortal realm, she uses her immortal powers to run the company Immortal and Mortal Flora. She hopes to quietly complete her trial, but when Lingshuang is captured, she is swept into a grave crisis. The only way to open Kunlun’s Bitter Cold Prison and save her is to repair a damaged immortal crystal. Wen Wanruo finds the remnants of the Jade Pool’s spiritual energy in Kunlun and uses them to restore the crystal. She then enters a secret realm with the mortal Shen Xingci and an old acquaintance, Gu Yan, only to draw the attention of Huaichen Xuan and Su Mei, who covet the crystal fragments.
Su Mei is badly wounded and forced to retreat, but Huaichen Xuan presses on, using dark powers to track the fragments. By chance, Shen Xingci pulls out a family heirloom: a bronze lock concealing the Celestial Emperor’s treasure, the Soul-Sealing Seal, which proves vital in suppressing the evil core. Ren Xue’er, once their enemy, lets go of her obsession and uses her Lotus Pool bloodline to break the secret realm’s restrictions. Later, when the immortal formation in Valley of Forgetfulness spirals out of control, she sacrifices herself to temporarily seal the evil power.
Trouble follows at every turn. Jingyao is forced to betray them to save his younger sister, while Lingshuang takes the Jade Pool Token to the Celestial Palace to request troops, only to be thwarted by Huaichen Xuan’s mole. Immortal and Mortal Flora is entrusted to Little Wang, who repeatedly fends off attacks from evil cultivators disguised as business dealings. Just when everyone thinks they have escaped the crisis for now, they learn that Ren Xue’er’s sacrifice has bought them only three days of respite. The evil core has activated a world-destroying curse, and in three days, the mortal realm and the Celestial Palace will be wiped out together.
With the countdown to the apocalypse underway and Huaichen Xuan’s scheme hidden in the Celestial Palace’s secret vault, Wen Wanruo draws on both her immortal powers and her business acumen. Together with Shen Xingci and Gu Yan, she sets out to find the evil core and break into the vault, vowing to use the Lotus Pool bloodline to protect both the immortal and mortal realms.
This is the first time I read a novel with this theme. I hope the pace is faster and more enjoyable.