In the ancient war between gods and demons, the Celestial Maiden sacrificed her divine soul to seal the world-destroying Demon Lord and protect all living beings. Her divine body shattered, her true spirit scattered into the cycle of reincarnation, and only a thread of sorrowful longing remained, lingering across the nine heavens.
Ten thousand years later, in the mortal world, in Qinglin Town, a lone girl from the mountains named Lin Muzhao found a blood-weeping black stone on a stormy night. From that moment, her fate changed. Her seemingly ordinary village concealed deadly dangers. The master who had raised her and was all she had disappeared without a word. And within her, a strange power of icy death inexplicably surged to life. To uncover the truth of her origins and survive the dangers closing in around her, she was forced to enter the infamous Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Here, poisonous miasma obscures the sun, demons and evils run rampant, and ancient horrors known as the “Bone River” and the “Insect Mother” lurk in the depths. Yet the greatest danger is herself. The power originating from the “Soul-Weeping Stone” and the broken divinity of the “Celestial Maiden of the Nine Heavens” awakening in her bloodline are dragging her toward an abyss where light and darkness, gods and demons, intertwine. Every life-and-death battle loosens the seal a little further; every strange memory reveals more of a sorrowful vow and betrayal that stretch back across the ages.
When the legendary gate to the “Abyssal Ruins” appears in the heart of this deadly land, and the causes and consequences of gods and demons weave together across past and present lives, Lin Muzhao finally learns that she is not only the key, but also the sacrifice, and the one piece on this cosmic chessboard most determined not to be ruled by fate.
A mortal girl, a body of gods and demons. She plunges into the abyss to survive, and faces death to become divine.
This is an epic transformation, a story of struggling upward from utter despair and rekindling the divine flame amid destruction.
