She is the junior sister of Xuan Qing Guan. She has traveled across mountains and rivers to slay demons for twenty years. She has a shadow-bearing sword that contains Taoist bones for three hundred years. She does not seek to ascend to immortality, but only to avoid suffering in the world. In the end, she broke the heaven-defying formation, which cost her half her life, and her black hair was stained with frost and snow.
He is the youngest prime minister of Daning. He is the Minister of Zhongshu and Tongping Zhangshi. He has seen through the strife in the court with a cold eye and has never believed in demons, gods, and Buddhas. The Hubu Ping Bian Dharma saves all the people from famine, but it cannot stop Buddhism from using immortality to cause trouble in the palace. The power in hand can control corrupt officials, but it cannot control the demon formation that sucks people's souls.
A strange case in Chang'an led to a narrow encounter between a Taoist nun and the prime minister. She saw demons disrupting the common people, and he saw power harming the country. Together they went to Lizhou to break the life-devouring formations of the Lotus Tantric Sect all over the world.
At the Luotian Grand Ceremony in Taiji Palace, Wu Xiang exchanged the lives of all people for eternal life. Fellow disciples and friends sacrificed their blood, tears and lives one after another. When the dust settled, only the embers of the disaster were left in Chang'an.
He gave up his central position and handed over an official letter from Longyou to reassure the people.
"You have lost your longevity, do you regret it?"
"The Tao is still there and the human world can still be crossed, so it is not a loss."
The setting sun stretches out two figures, the one holding the sword and the one holding the wat, walking together on a long journey to the world.
Intention: The Tao is not about ascending to the fairy mountain, nor in vain immortality, but in entering the world and saving people; the real salvation is never about praying to gods and Buddhas, defying heaven and extending life, but about mortals guarding the common people in the world with their flesh and blood, longevity and authority.