Fated Protector, Yandere Divine Venerable, A Healer Who Kills Without Hesitation, Extreme Contrast, Dimensional Overmatch
Xuan Jue, a fox-clan healer, was born with “demon bones and a Buddha’s heart.” With stunning looks, he lives by the rule: “If they can be healed, heal them. If they deserve to die, kill them.” Betrayed by his closest friend and left with his soul torn into seven pieces, he falls from the heights and sets out on a soul-searching journey across the Three Realms. On the brink of death, he awakens his slumbering “fate”: a languid Divine Venerable who is always surrounded by a wisp of crisp, cool fragrance.
The Divine Venerable was born to protect Xuan Jue’s “Buddha’s heart.” Appearing just in time to save his shattered soul, he murmurs only, “I must save the Buddha.”
From then on, Xuan Jue uses his healing skills to turn countless plants, herbs, and poisonous insects into “medicinal spirit weapons” as he struggles across the human realm, the underworld, and the celestial realm. Whenever he is pushed to the brink, that crisp, cool fragrance quietly spreads, and the Divine Venerable appears to clear every obstacle in the most mocking and merciless ways. He regards Xuan Jue as his one untouchable weakness. When Xuan Jue saves people, he watches lazily; when Xuan Jue is forced to kill, he offers him an even sharper blade.
When the celestial realm’s scheme to harvest souls targets Xuan Jue, the Divine Venerable finally loses control. No longer hiding his power, he descends with overwhelming divine might and bathes the hypocritical Heavenly Court in blood for the only “Buddha” he has. They win the decisive battle, but Xuan Jue’s most crucial seventh soul fragment is nowhere to be found. Gazing into the void, the Divine Venerable shows fear for the first time. “My Buddha... Your final fragment was dragged into the abyss by an ‘unspeakable’ existence.” The true catastrophe has only just begun.
