In the first year of Jianshou, there was a severe drought in the southwest, and the red land was thousands of miles away.
The general guarding the border secretly kept a granary, and all his family members were slaughtered except for one son. He was accused of being the reincarnation of the "drought demon", and evil animals were rampant.
Ten years later, Pei Yingzhi, the ninth princess of Dasheng, disappeared outside the palace.
Pei Yingzhi picked up a deaf and mute boy by the river. He was scarred and silent as iron.
She relented and gave him a Tianling Pill, thinking: "You should find a bodyguard and we can settle the matter if he is sent back to the imperial city."
Little did she know that what she picked up casually was the karmic fire formed by the ninety-three lives in Lixi Town, a "devil fetus" that was kept secret in the human world.
He could hear all the evil thoughts in the world, but her voice was the first glimmer of light that shone into the boundless darkness.
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Since then, monsters and demons have come in droves.
The painted-skinned fox spirit steals into the boudoir; the mandrill in the carp stream turns resentment into rain; the ghost dream in southern Xinjiang makes it difficult to tell the truth from the truth...
A series of strange cases seem to be inextricably linked to the fire that overturned the general's mansion.
And he was holding a broken sword in front of her, looking back in the sea of blood and corpses, with suppressed madness and desperate clarity in his eyes:
"Pei Yingzhi, don't be afraid."
"Where demons are rampant, I will clear the way forward for you."
——This world is like a prison, and I am sinking.
——Until I meet you, I will know what it means to walk towards the light.
