In troubled times, love is not buried. Only dry bones are.
At the end of the Five Dynasties, Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, and Zhou rose and fell in succession, while the Ten Kingdoms fought for control. The killing unleashed by the age shattered an ancient seal, and spiritual qi revival began. Rifts to the Ghost Realm appeared in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, elves took shape amid the shattered mountains and rivers, and lost treasures emerged one after another. Whoever possessed these treasures could change the course of dynasties.
Shen Jinghong is the son of Shen Chongyuan, a great general of Later Zhou. In a single night, his entire family was falsely accused of “colluding with the Khitan and plotting treason.” More than three hundred members of his household were slaughtered in Bianliang. An old servant dragged him from a mound of corpses. His only keepsake was an ancestral jade pendant covered in ancient inscriptions.
While fleeing for his life, he discovered that the pendant could absorb moonlight and condense it into icy sword energy. At the brink of death, it could even open a rift to the underworld and summon the spirits of fallen warriors. Once word got out, the lords of the Ten Kingdoms, Khitan cavalry, and forces from the Ghost Realm all set their sights on him.
Hua Yingyue is the “Lady of the Flower Pistils,” the most beloved consort of Shu’s last ruler. Her beauty could topple kingdoms, and one performance of “Rainbow Skirts” could bring the whole court to tears. No one knows that she is actually an ancient peach-blossom spirit. Her people were slaughtered by cultivators, leaving only her fragmentary soul, which now resides in the Shu palace. She approaches Shen Jinghong to steal the pendant, for it holds the last surviving souls of her people.
She schemes against him and uses him, yet as they fight side by side and rely on each other for their lives again and again, she is the first to surrender her heart.
When a deception disguised as love ultimately ensnares the very person who set it in motion, how will they face what they have done?
A Taoist nun from Southern Tang, a Khitan wolf maiden, the Human Emperor’s Cauldron, the Netherworld Scroll, the Heavenly Craftsman’s Secret Realm... From a fugitive on the run, Shen Jinghong gradually grows into the “Frostglory Young Master,” a figure who shakes the Ten Kingdoms. But a greater conspiracy
