In her previous life, she was a stand-in. Her spiritual root was ripped out, her soul shattered, and when she died by his sword, all she got was, “You think you can compare to her?”
Reborn at fifteen, with her spiritual root still intact.
She awakens a mutated ice spiritual root, excels at both talismans and formations, and chills the Nine Provinces with a single sword.
The Tianxuan Sect kneels and begs her to become their founding ancestor?
She lowers her eyes and smiles. “You’re not worthy.”
Gu Changyuan goes mad.
He abandons his beloved, kneels at the mountain gate, and presents his life-bound sword, begging her to take him back.
She links arms with Yun Guichen and flings her engagement notice in his face.
“Daoist Gu, call me Grandmother.”
Only on the day she ascends does he discover the truth:
The girl who saved him all those years ago was not Xiao Ruosheng.
And the wisp of spiritual soul in her sword is the very ancestral spirit he had sought for a century and spent his whole life kneeling before...