In the Northern Wilderness, wind and snow never cease. Liu Hanying, a poor young woman, had expected to spend the rest of her life in a humble home with her parents.
On the night she turned sixteen, a heavenly fire razed her village. Only then did she learn that her father was a Golden Core sword cultivator who had fled the Xuanbing Sect, her mother was a "demoness" afflicted with the Nine Yin Severed Meridians, and she herself was the "vessel" they had given their lives to protect, sealing the blood essence of an ancient Ice Phoenix.
Her family was slaughtered. She fled. She awakened. She entered Xuanbing, fought the prodigies, broke the Ten Thousand Swords Formation, and devoured the Ice Phoenix's soul. From the agony of tempering her body in Snow Prison Valley to the life-or-death struggle in the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm, she went from prey with a bounty of one hundred thousand spirit stones on her head to the "Daughter of the Ice Phoenix," whose name made the Nine Domains tremble.
The world calls her cold-blooded and ruthless, able to slay Nascent Soul cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage as easily as sipping tea. Yet no one knows that each night she lets the cold qi devour her heart just so she can remember the poem about pear blossoms her mother used to hum. The world fears her demonic bloodline, which can freeze a thousand miles and unleash divine fire. Yet no one knows she wields her sword not for immortality, but to ask one question: "Why are ordinary people treated like grass? Why can't women control their own fate?"
When the last snow falls over the Northern Wilderness, she will become a torch and light the way across a thousand mountains.
The plot of the novel is pretty good