She was once the most dazzling Phoenix Goddess in the Nine Heavens, wielding the power of life and death and gazing down upon all living beings. Then, in a single day, she was betrayed by her closest kin. Her divine bones were stolen, her soul shattered, and she was cast into the land of endless ashes, doomed to never be reborn.
But the phoenix rises anew from the flames. When she opened her eyes in the foulest mire, the goddess of old was dead. All that remained in her heart was boundless hatred and an unyielding obsession. In this life, she would no longer live for all creation, but for herself. She would tear away the masks of the hypocritical immortals, make her betrayers pay in blood, and trample the lofty Heavenly Dao beneath her feet.
The forsaken land of ashes was both her prison and her crucible. She made resentment her fire and hatred her sustenance, reforging her immortal bones and remaking her divine soul. When she returned to the Nine Heavens bearing the netherworld’s flames, heaven and earth would tremble, and the sun and moon would lose their light. Defying fate begins now.
