One day, I awoke from a dream to find myself a guest in the Register of the Unfortunate in the Dream of the Red Chamber.
I had hoped to keep a low profile and quietly watch the world unfold, but this realm had already reached the end of its days.
Jia Jue was an obscure distant branch of the Jia family, orphaned, frail, and often ill. He survived on the family’s meager charity and was seen by everyone as a poor wretch who could die at any moment.
Yet no one knew that beneath this frail, ailing body lay the soul of a Chaos Overlord who had lived through three cycles of reincarnation and once stirred the heavens and earth.
Beyond this realm, immortals and demons from other worlds watched like hawks. Within it, the Heavenly Dao was crippled and its spiritual energy dwindling. This world of the Dream of the Red Chamber was merely a refuge where he could recover his strength and lie low, as well as the final battlefield where he might glimpse a chance to transcend.
He used the mortal world as a furnace and the seven emotions as its flames, tempering his Dao heart.
He awakened Jiangzhu: tears would no longer be a debt, but a source of creation brimming with infinite vitality.
He guided Hengwu: with ice and fire in balance, one could command the world and wield power at court even while appearing warm on the outside and cold within.
He enlightened the stubborn stone: through insight into one’s true nature, unwavering devotion could become a path-protecting force in the mortal world, bringing blessings to all.
He commanded Rakshasas: turning baleful energy into weapons, he ruled the underworld with decisive force and strict order…
The Twelve Beauties of Jinling broke free of the shackles of fate. Under his command, each shone with divine radiance and embarked on a radically different path to immortality.
He faced the ethereal Perfected and the boundless Great Sage, who clung to their “Spiritless Pure Land”; Prince Beijing, Shui Rong, who dreamed of restoring the former dynasty; Fairy Jing Huan, trapped in the remnants of the Grand Void; the Haotian Immortal Sect, which had crossed worlds and sworn to purify the “remnants of Chaos”; and the Chaos Demon Gods who coveted this realm’s origin…
Jia Jue laid out the Great Array of the Stars of the Celestial Cycle, using the Human Emperor Banner as a guide to turn this mirror of romance into a bulwark protecting the world!
When the final trial of life and death arrived…
