[Character Growth + Progressive Power-Up + Strong Female Lead + Slow Burn]
- Not a conventional power fantasy -
Su Jingmian, an orphan of unknown origins, wants to break free from her life in captivity. During her escape, Lin Wantang shoots her dead with an arrow, and her soul is scattered.
The Crown Prince Xuan Jin sacrifices his soul to reclaim a fragment of hers and uses forbidden magic to bring her back to life. She turns around and runs. Abyssal demonic energy leaks into the world, monsters roam the wilderness, poisonous pills circulate on the black market, and the living are refined into undead servants. Whether this world is in chaos has nothing to do with her. She just wants to find an uninhabited place and live in peace.
A fox spirit wants to eat her, so she pins it to the ground. Its pelt can keep her warm, its meat can make soup, and its inner core can boost her strength. As she considers how to get started, the fox spirit proves more devious than she is and tricks her into signing a life-sharing contract. From then on, she can't get rid of it.
The noble young master Mu Qinghan offers her ten days of his time in exchange for pills, asking her to help investigate the demonic energy. She agrees. She has to survive either way, and rare pills are too good to pass up.
She takes the fox spirit through the spirit-beast clan's territory, crosses the Dragon Servant Clan's ruins, and finally hides in Heguang Sect, starting out as an outer disciple.
The spirit-testing stone shows no reaction in her hands, so she's branded useless. She falls off the arena during the junior tournament and becomes a laughingstock. Everyone says she's taking up a spot and will be kicked out sooner or later.
She neither argues nor fights back, accepting everything as it comes. By day, she walks with her head down. At night, she secretly cultivates. The outer sect's chief disciple senses something is off about her, while the elder in charge sees through it but says nothing.
Then the mutated criminals storm the sect, Mu Qinghan arrives, the Ling family blocks the gates, and undead servants surround the mountain. All the scores come due at once.
Su Jingmian tightens her grip on her sword and steps forward.
There's no escaping now. Then... she doesn't need to anymore
