Three years ago, Shen Zhaoxue, the chief disciple of Taiwei Sword Sect, was expelled from the sect. His sword was completely destroyed and he became a traitor in the eyes of the three worlds.
Three years later, he stepped into a border town forgotten by the world. Three hundred and seventy-six people died in the city, but all the living people only remembered the fire and never the names of the deceased. At midnight, a bronze lamp lit up on the street, and the dead soul called Shen Zhaoxue's name from the lamp and told him——
"It was you who left us here with your own hands."
In order to find out the truth, Shen Zhaoxue sneaked into Tiandu and reunited with his former best friend Rong Yu under the Zhuxian Tower.
Rong Yu was once the Immortal Lord of Heavenly Law Enforcement, and he was also the sinner who personally destroyed Shen Zhaoxue's sword heart and forced him to leave the sect. Now, he has been chained to the immortal bones and fallen into the mortal world, but he holds the secret about the "Sacrifice of Ten Thousand Immortals": the so-called ascension is just a sacrifice by the immortal gate; the so-called destiny is just a cage made by countless dead souls by the immortals of the past generations.
And Shen Zhaoxue is the next sacrificial weapon.
One wants to destroy Tianmen, and the other must cut off his old life; one refuses to be protected anymore, and the other dares not let go. The two went from being old enemies to being on the same road, from deceiving each other to making choices. Between the souls returning to the ruins, the trial of the immortal gate, and the collapse of the three realms, they finally discovered that what really needed to be cut off was not a certain person, but the world that required innocent people to die in silence in the name of "the safety of all living beings."
On the night of worshiping heaven, Shen Zhaoxue drew his sword and killed Tianmen.
After this sword, immortality will no longer exist, the fairy world will fall to the human world, and everyone must bear the price for their choices.
A hundred years later, at the lantern festival in the deserted city, a mortal who had lost all his memory stood at the end of the lantern, looked at Shen Zhaoxue, and whispered their common old covenant:
"If one man falls into the abyss, the other man will draw his sword to save him."
Purpose: True order cannot be based on the sacrifice of innocent people.
Making decisions for others in the name of love can also be harmful.
The so-called destiny, if people are not allowed to resist, is just the power packaged as divine will.
Freedom is not without a price, but having the right to choose after knowing the price.
Breaking the old world is not the end, what is really difficult is establishing new rules together.
Remembering the dead is the most basic respect for those who have been erased.
Love is not about saving and being saved, but about returning the truth and choices to each other completely
