Introduction to the novel
In the thirteenth year when no one in the Tianqing Continent could become a god, the dusty stone door of the Huajia forbidden area suddenly opened.
Xu Qing is the only returnee.
He returned from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, only to find that his hometown had long been shattered - the embers of the Xu family's destruction were not extinguished, and the Hua family became the target of public criticism due to a "failed expedition" and was cannibalized by monks from various sects. And Hua Dishu, the young man who always loved to smile while hugging sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, is now half-veiled, with only frozen hatred in his eyes. The vines wrapped around his fingertips can easily crush the bones and blood of seventh-level monks.
"It's been seven years," Hua Dishu's voice came through the gauze, as cold as quenching poison, "I owe everything I owe to the Hua family. It's time to pay back everything I owe."
Xu Qing followed him on the road of revenge, from the miasma of Black Wind Valley to the mountain gate of Qingyun Sect, watching him use the most ruthless means to repay his blood debt, and also watching him show fleeting tenderness to a pot of orchids. He gradually discovered that the truth about the expedition, the secret behind the destruction of the Xu family, and the root cause of the sudden change in the flower dictionary were all hidden in the world behind that door and the past that he dared not touch.
When the dusty secrets are revealed one by one, will they become each other's salvation, or will they eventually be dragged into the same abyss by hatred?
"Hua Dishu, was it me you were waiting for back then?"
He never asked, but quietly held the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his hand tightly while wielding swords side by side.
Purpose: Taking the dilemma of becoming a god in Azure Continent as the background, explore the fission and perseverance of human nature in desperate situations. Hua Dishu's road to revenge is not only a reckoning with the betrayers, but also an inquiry into "good and evil are rewarded" - when order collapses, is the only way out to fight violence with violence? Xu Qing's return brings another possibility: even after going through purgatory, there are still people who remember the sweetness of the sweet-scented osmanthus cake and the tenderness of the past. In the pull of revenge and redemption, the two re-examine the boundaries between "justice" and "humanity", and finally find something more important than becoming gods on the devastated continent.