After a car accident, medical student Song Anya’s soul travels to the world of cultivation. She wakes in a pile of corpses on Luoshen Mountain, where Hua Siqian, an old woman from the Gu tribe, finds her and brings her back to the Ten Thousand Gu Stronghold.
She thinks she’s been lucky. Though her water-and-fire clashing spiritual roots are useless, she has at least learned to make poison and control Gu creatures, and found herself a home.
Two years later, the orthodox sects slaughter the Ten Thousand Gu Stronghold. The old woman blows herself up, and the entire village is reduced to ashes. Song Anya fights her way out and spends a month being hunted, surviving on wild fruit. When she finally reaches Yuzhou City in the human realm, she hears rumors that the Gu tribe’s remaining members are wreaking havoc and killing countless people.
Only then does she understand: the Gu tribe has long been branded as demonic heretics. And she is one of the so-called “remnants.”
