He would steal her life back from the cycle of reincarnation.
But she awakened within a lotus heart, bearing an order to kill him.
Only when the karmic flames that consumed everything finally died down
did they see each other’s true faces amid the ashes.
Three hundred years ago, Zhao Qingyue, the light of the immortal sects, perished while sealing a demonic rift. Her brother, Zhao Xinghe, lost his Daoist resolve, stole the sect’s supreme treasure that sealed her remnant soul, and defected to the Northern Underworld Demon Abyss.
Three hundred years later, he emerged from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood as the fearsome Demon Lord Xinghe. He searched forbidden scriptures for just one method: defy reincarnation, reverse death, and bring her back.
Meanwhile, the immortal sects used that wisp of remnant soul as the core and the supreme treasure as the furnace to create the perfect weapon of the Heavenly Dao: the Sacred Maiden of Purification. Gazing down from the highest heavens, she wielded the Demon-Burning Divine Flame, with one thought alone: kill the Demon Lord and suppress the lotus heart.
When they met again amid blood and fire, he recognized that face. It was her.
When their blades crossed, she recognized that soul, but not him.
He infiltrated enemy ranks and endured the torment of soul refinement, just to cast a faint image of “home” into the frozen lake of her heart.
She purged demonic corruption, but when her sword pointed at his throat, the searing words “big brother” in her mind pierced her soul.
This is the beginning of a
