Everyone says Tao Yuan, the mountain god of Peach Blossom Mountain, died long ago.
A thousand years ago, he cut off the Dragon King's head and hung it above the Southern Heavenly Gate, earning himself five hundred years of confinement. On the night before his sentence was due to end, he secretly left the mountain to save his disciple, Hua Qianqiu, and Heaven sentenced him to death. His five-hundred-year sentence was over, and he should have been reduced to nothing, his soul scattered and his body obliterated.
But his foolish disciple traded his own life to bring him back to the mortal world.
From then on, Tao Yuan wore Hua Qianqiu's face and wielded Hua Qianqiu's sword, becoming the mountain god least like a mountain god in all the world.
Lu Qiuchan, princess of the Demon Cavern, was dressed in blazing red and known for her ruthless methods. The spirit fire of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Cavern was about to go out, and her people were in imminent danger. She set her sights on Peach Blossom Mountain's treasured guardian, the Peach Immortal Sword. She kidnapped the city lord's daughter and came demanding it. She thought the fair-faced young Daoist was just a useless pushover, but he broke her killing move with a single stroke of his sword, pinned her to the ground, and asked coldly, "Is that all you've got?"
Later, right in front of him, she faced Peach Blossom Mountain and said with red-rimmed eyes, "The person I admired most in this life was called Tao Yuan. Too bad he's dead."
He didn't know whether he should tell her: he wasn't quite dead yet.
Until the bloodstained bracelet was slipped onto her wrist, until that person said to her beneath the moon, "I'm actually Tao Yuan."
One is a mountain god who crawled out from under his coffin lid, borrowed his disciple's body, and lost his own sword.