Chu Wan spent ten years as Lingyun Sect's eldest senior sister, only to end up expelled from the sect.
Her shizun said she lacked talent, her senior brother said she lacked generosity, and her junior sister Su Yue cheerfully took her cultivation chamber, heart-protecting mirror, and the immortal crane she had raised with her own hands. Even the sect's records of her ten years of contributions were changed to bear Su Yue's name. On the day she left, among the sect's eight hundred disciples, only a dog came to see her off.
She turned and entered the poorest sect in the cultivation world, becoming the youngest junior sister in the entire sect. Qingyang Sect was so poor that its roof leaked, its pill furnace was missing a leg, and its protective formation had been shut down for three hundred years because the fees were overdue. But any one of her five senior brothers and sisters was an unparalleled prodigy capable of turning half the cultivation world upside down. From then on, Chu Wan and this bunch of problem children began their chaotic daily lives.
Later, she met the six leading disciples of the six great sects: the "Sword Ghost" of Kunlun Sword Pavilion, the "Formation Maniac" of Penglai Immortal Island, the "Zither Demon" of Tianyin Pavilion, the "Beast King" of Myriad Beasts Manor, the "Zen Madman" of Bodhi Temple, and the "Poison Fairy" of Bilu Palace. Together, they crushed the demon race, face-slapped her former sect, and swept the field at the sect tournament. Later still, the twelve of them ascended together.
The world called them the "Twelve Stars of Dawn": Chizhou, Yaoyue, Pozhen, Fentian, Due, Suixing, Zhanye, Lingxiao, Guixu, Niepan, Wanlan, and Zhenyue. Together, they were a blazing fire; apart, stars across the heavens. And the foremost of the Twelve Stars, codenamed "Chizhou," was none other than Chu Wan, the one Lingyun Sect had once thrown out.
Later, the people of Lingyun Sect knelt before her and begged her to return. Chu Wan munched on the sweet potato her eldest senior brother had roasted and said three words: "Get in line."
