A Gentle Step Into the Clouds

[Entering the Azure Clouds] [Shangguan Qian] [Mingyi] [Ji Bozai]

Shangguan Qian, a survivor of the upheaval at the Gongmen and a deserter from Wufeng, wakes from a dream to find herself transformed into Mingxian, the crown prince of Yaoguang Mountain and a god of war in the immortal realm. This “god of war” has disguised herself as a man since the age of thirteen and led Yaoguang Mountain to seven years of victories. Her spiritual channels are vast, yet her arrival throws them into disorder. Worse still, she is afflicted with the deadly poison Lihen Tian. Its seven-petal markings burn through her spiritual channels, and unless she finds the antidote Huangliang Meng within a year, her channels will shatter and she will die.

To find the antidote, she infiltrates Jixing Abyss, posing as a menial worker in debt from gambling, and maneuvers among the various factions.

Ji Bozai, the cold and inscrutable leader of Qingyun, bears the past of a condemned prisoner from Shenyuan and a blood feud for the murder of his master. He refuses to discuss Huangliang Meng and has a heart like cold iron.

The ambitious Lord Han Feng, Mu Qibai, sees Huangliang Meng as the key to claiming the Six Realms of Jixing Abyss. He resorts to every means, from threats to bribes.

The Tianji princess struggles under her uncle’s political machinations and the heavy burden of succession, trying to seize any chance to turn the tables.

In this tangled game of strategy, Shangguan Qian is both a pawn and the player moving the pieces. Drawing on her past experience with schemes, she skillfully plucks every string of self-interest.

Yet Ji Bozai’s past is shrouded in mist, Mu Qibai’s ambition has no visible bounds, and the Tianji princess’s trust is fragile. Shangguan Qian dances on the edge of a blade, with every step a matter of life and death. She must not only race against time to find Huangliang Meng, but also carve out a chance to survive for herself in the power vortex of the immortal realm.