Yan Qingci, Sword Venerable of the Shuanghan Sect, has cultivated the Way of Supreme Detachment from Emotion for three hundred years.
Everyone says his heart is as cold as ice, untouched by joy or sorrow, and that he is the sacrifice chosen by the Heavenly Dao, destined to mend the heavens with his own body.
His sect demands that he sever all ties and abandon love. The laws of the Heavenly Dao command him to cast off every emotion and desire. Everyone is waiting for him to die sealing the rift in the sky.
Then Xiao Wang, the Demon Lord who was once hunted by the world and watched his master sacrifice himself to the Dao, returns reborn with a century of bone-deep hatred and obsession.
Back in the year he first became his disciple, the youth’s eyes roil with demonic energy as he relentlessly pursues his aloof master.
His master avoids him, rejects him, pushes him away, and clings to the emotionless path, refusing to fall for him.
Xiao Wang grips a corner of his robe, his eyes red as he pleads in a low voice, “Master, the whole world wants you to cast off your feelings and die. I’m the only one who wants you to live, to have eyes only for me.”
The Heavenly Dao wants to tear him apart, the sect wants to sacrifice him, and chaos wants to devour him.
Then I, Xiao Wang, will defy the Heavenly Dao, stand against the sect, and cut down chaos. With my demonic heart, I will give him the deepest devotion in all the world.
