**The Dao tempered in blood and fire, a cold blade guarding the land**
She was once the foremost disciple of Kunlun Yuxu, blessed by the light of a Sage.
Thirty-three lashes from the God-Beating Whip shattered her spine and erased her name from the immortal registers.
Exiled to the northern frontier, she saw only snow-filled valleys swallowing white bones and demon eagles pecking at human hearts. Miners' toes froze blue-purple, golden sand soaked up mortal blood, and Old Master Li gladly pocketed his share of the sect's profits.
**"You can have the mines, but not the power."**
Wounded, Fang Gui enters purgatory, leaning on a crutch.
A steward with severed fingers, blood-mine puppets, and Western relics that devour daylight, in this hell of spiritual energy gone barren, where people eat one another, she lights the first flame:
She gives mortals swords and blades, teaches girls to slay demons, and leads the miners in raising bloodstained baskets to smash bronze armor!
After ten years of bloody war, traitors hang dead from the beams.
Breaking out through the alleys, only twenty-seven of three thousand comrades remain.
When she howls and weeps in the ruins, what blood and tears temper is not only her fury, but also her declaration to Heaven and Earth:
**"Though I know the ending is a furnace, I will carve a bloodied path for those who come after!"**
Before the Zixiao Palace, the order "Ten deaths, no chance of survival" rings out with weight.
A retelling of Investiture of the Gods.
When she breaks through to the Hunyuan realm beneath a withered tree, the embers in her pipe illuminate the tearful smiles of Duobao and Yunxiao.
From the snow of the Northern Kuru Continent to the fire of the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, she shakes the calamity with the body of a Quasi-Sage:
**If the Heavenly Dao is unjust, then let the hearts of the people be the scales, and their blood and bones the seal!**
At last, the Investiture Platform is rebuilt, and the Dao Ancestor personally crowns her as Heavenly Emperor.
The frozen toes in the snowy valley and the bloodstained bronze swords in the mines all shine like stars beneath her throne
**"My name is Fang Gui. I guard against the surging sea of blood, and protect the dawn of all living beings."**
Theme: Where the gods fall silent, she teaches mortals to kindle a flame
