Falling Star Mountain Range, at the bottom of Soul-Desolating Cliff.
Shen Yao woke up from the pile of rocks, feeling as if his bones were being crushed. She didn't know why her father kicked her out of the house when she was ten years old, or why her mother had been waiting at the border for ten years. She didn't even know that she contained Qiongqi's remnant soul fragment sealed in her body, the original alien beast that tore apart the world in ancient times, and the source of the decay of the boundary wall.
She is the only "beast-free person" in the Canglan world, and she has not been contaminated by the blood of even the lowest wild beast. The tribe called her useless, and her father sentenced her to be kicked out of the house. Ten years later, when she was dying, she touched a dusty jade bamboo slip, and Qiongqi roared out from the totem: "Born without beasts? You are a lock."
The pale golden mark on the shoulder was left by her mother, like an eye about to open. She wants to find her mother, uncover the truth about her abandonment, and figure out her father's last silent words - was it "come back alive" or something else.
Every time she becomes stronger, she must kill to light up the exotic beast totem, and every time she advances, she consumes her flesh, blood, and soul. She lost her companions, lost the clues left by her mother, and even almost lost herself. But she has no way out, the refugees on the border are being massacred, the boundary wall is crumbling, and the entire Canglan Realm is falling.
She is the thrown-away Beastless. She is the lord of all beasts.
She is the last lock and the only key.
