[How do they destroy a people?]
--Break their backs, replace their history, rewrite their language, and enslave their people.
In this endless destruction, a spark crosses a thousand years and slowly opens her eyes.
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Until a frail girl fishes a rotting head out of a stinking ditch--
Liu Bujue wakes up.
She fell from a battlefield of corpses and rivers of blood, and plummeted from the Celestial River after being betrayed and executed. Her memories are shattered, her power gone. The people she once protected see her kind as a curse. The academy they built with everything they had has, for a thousand years, seen every generation of students die as victims of countless bounties.
Now, all she has left is a head. A girl who would sell her to survive has hidden her in a drafty thatched hut.
"She's already like this. What's the difference between alive and dead?!"
"There is." The head's damaged vocal cords vibrate. "The difference is..."
"I'm not quite dead yet."
And so, boundless hatred and blood not yet cold begin to burn anew from this rotting head.
She will reclaim her bones, her blood, and her power.
She will cut through the lies rewritten over a thousand years.
She will ask those who dwell in the heavens...
Now that the backs you broke with your own hands have been mended, and the "Sword Demon" you scorned has opened her eyes again...
How fare you, false gods?
Blurb two:
We are ants, dried corpses abandoned by the immortal sects.
We have no place we can call home. Wandering or settling in a garbage village is the best we can hope for.
Everyone hates us, mortals and ghosts alike. Natural disasters, human calamities, exorbitant taxes. Any little misfortune can crush us.
We'll do anything to survive.
But we can't survive.
Until one day, a god descended.
She held out her hand.
She invited us in.
She said:
Come, let's open up a new world together--
Theme: Life is full of challenges.
