He forsook his divine rank and fell into reincarnation, all to repay a debt from the time he betrayed her on the Cliff of No Return.
She wears an incense token and dreams night after night, glimpsing a past woven from the Heavenly Way and Asura blood and fire.
Shen Qingyan gives her an incense token called “Shadow Tracer.”
Lin Tan wears it, and nightmares haunt her from then on: fingertips slipping away beneath the water, a divine general turning aside with his eyes closed on the battlefield, and a final farewell left unspoken.
She doesn't know that this gentle incense maker was once Xuanzhao, a divine general who commanded punishment and war in the heavens.
To find her reincarnation, he gave up all his merit and willingly endured the suffering of the cycle of rebirth.
When the incense token burns away, her memories return, and the pursuers of the Heavenly Way and the Asuras arrive...
He stands before her, incense in hand. Behind him lies the warmth of mortal life; before him, the rushing tide of fate.
