Yu Li, the legitimate daughter of the Raven lineage.
But her body was occupied by a soul from another world for more than a decade. During that time, the impostor threw her weight around among the Raven clan, bullied others, and monopolized trade. She became the most despised female in the Three Gods Continent.
At the Bone and Spirit Ceremony, she was deemed a good-for-nothing with no spiritual power!
Meanwhile, Yu Wanli, a daughter of a collateral branch, awakened S-rank spiritual power and the ancient power of spirit speech, dazzling everyone.
The clan leader made an immediate decision: Yu Li's right to inherit was revoked!
Worse still, the ten beast husbands she had forcibly bound to herself with blood contracts were all transferred and contracted to Yu Wanli.
The blood contracts backfired, and the otherworldly soul died on the spot. Yu Li's original soul finally returned to her body.
The Beast God took Yu Li in as a beloved daughter and raised her for over a decade in the Divine Tree Diwu. She had always thought she was a heaven-blessed girl born of the Divine Tree.
And now, they were telling her she was a black crow.
Yu Li: The sky is falling!
Fortunately, to comfort her, the Beast God gave her a spatial realm and the Divine Tree's origin as compensation, then found her ten new beast husbands to contract with.
But the twists of fate did not end there.
Who would have thought that an ancient black bird bloodline lay dormant inside Yu Li? She was the genuine article, a divine bird chosen by fate!
Layer upon layer of conspiracy was exposed: being possessed, becoming a good-for-nothing, having her beast husbands stolen from her, all of it had been carefully plotted by the Raven clan from the very beginning!
They coveted the destiny she was born with, forcibly borrowing her fate in hopes of changing the deep-rooted prejudice against the Raven clan throughout the beast world.
A crow for her skin, a black bird for her bones.
She would collect every debt, one by one!
A guide:
There are many descriptions of the black bird's appearance. Some say it is a crow, others a swallow, and still others a golden crow. In this story, I've imagined it as a bird with dazzling, multicolored black phoenix feathers. You can also picture it as a dark phoenix.
(Note: The Dark Phoenix is a later invention in fiction and is not the same as the ancient black bird.)
Also, this is an ancient beast world, so it has a matriarchal clan system and a cultivation progression. There are no insectoid races, only evil beasts.
Naturally, the Beast God is a great female beast.
Theme: Even when life is difficult, keep striving to live.