Mysterious Lotus Casebook: Finding Ye Dingzhi's Soul from the Start

A crossover between Mysterious Lotus Casebook and The Blood of Youth

Ye Dingzhi, Sect Master of the Outer Heavens, took his own life for love. Yet a wisp of his defiant spirit did not enter the cycle of reincarnation. Instead, it fell into the tiny corner of the martial world known as the Lotus Tower, where Li Lianhua, who had only a year left to live, “found” him.

The demonic giant who once stirred up the world, and the penniless, clear-eyed wandering doctor of today, begin an unusual life together in the mobile wooden tower. Ye Dingzhi watches coolly as Li Lianhua solves cases and saves people, remaining composed even as the Bicha poison tortures him. Ye Dingzhi goes from disdain to understanding, and is ultimately moved by Li Lianhua's way of life: “Find peace in small acts of kindness, and face death with a will to live.”

At the same time, Li Lianhua glimpses another possibility for the highest realm of martial arts through this “prisoner” from another world. As the Bicha poison eats away at his meridians, Ye Dingzhi's knowledge of the martial path helps him forge his spirit anew. In the end, the sword Li Lianhua strikes by the East Sea is for neither victory nor vengeance, but to shatter the void.

The sword's light tears through the sky screen, and Li Lianhua returns to the world of The Blood of Youth with Ye Dingzhi's soul. Twelve years have passed since Ye Dingzhi took his own life. His son, Wuxin, is now imprisoned at Hanshui Temple, and undercurrents are once again stirring across the land. As the wisdom and martial arts of the two worlds converge, how will they make up for twelve years of regret and reshape the martial world?