Chu Zhao transmigrates into the lowest rung of a cultivation sect: a menial disciple with an ordinary spiritual root and little hope for the future.
That is, until she finds a badly injured boy in an abandoned brick kiln, his eyes as wary and dependent as those of a young beast. His name is Su Jin.
At the spiritual aptitude ceremony, he triggers a world-shaking phenomenon, yet is declared a useless case with “chaotic, unopened meridians.” From then on, he becomes an object of study coveted by the sect’s leaders.
Only Chu Zhao knows what terrifying, ancient power surges within him.
At the bottom of Frostmist Ravine, she risks her life to seize a Jade Marrow Mushroom for him. In the dark alleys of Blackhorn, he fights alone in a bloody battle to hold off her pursuers.
He is quiet but sincere, seeing her as his only light and willingly becoming her shield and her blade.
When a mysterious force sets its sights on her, when the truth of an ancient inheritance comes to light, when an apocalyptic prophecy becomes entangled with his origins…
Chu Zhao grips his hand. “Don’t be afraid. We’ll face it together.”
From then on, with thorns on the path to immortality and dangers along the road of cultivation, her devoted companion stands at her side, and they face every calamity together.
This is a story of two people saving and empowering each other as they carve out a place for themselves in a brutal world of cultivation.
