[Fan of the Demon Patriarch | Original brand new extra, no official connection] A strange phenomenon occurred in the deserted village at the junction of Qinghe and Lanling: the deceased got up and walked every night, repeating the actions of his life, and fell down at dawn, with lingering resentment. Jiang Cheng sent a letter asking for help, and Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji went to investigate and found that all the deceased had been exposed to "requiem stones" flowing out of the black market during their lifetimes. The stones were engraved with ancient runes that had been erased from the immortal sect's history books.
Following the clues, the two found a barren mountain that disappeared out of thin air from the Xianmen map. The mountain is dotted with a forest of wordless steles, where a mysterious sect, Xuanmen, was buried a hundred years ago.
The practice of the Xuanmen lineage is completely opposite to that of hundreds of schools of Xianmen: they never suppress or kill the souls of the dead, but advocate alleviating obsessions, appeasing regrets, and allowing the deceased to say goodbye satisfactorily. This "gentle road" touches the foundation of the family - if the obsession can be solved and the souls of the dead can be put to rest, the authority that the family relies on to "suppress evil and eliminate evil spirits" to establish its authority and hold power will collapse. Therefore, a hundred years ago, the five major families joined forces to burn down Xuanmen overnight, obliterating the inheritance and historical records, and defined it as an "evil way."
Zhu Jiu, the only survivor of Xuanmen, was desperately sent into the secret passage of the earth by his master. He was trapped in obsession for a hundred years and became neither human nor ghost. He secretly sells requiem stones and deliberately triggers visions in the world, just to make the erased Xuanmen visible to the world again.
Faced with the aggregation of ten thousand obsessions caused by Zhu Jiu, hundreds of immortal families demanded force to encircle and suppress them. Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji chose a completely different path -
