The White Fox Valley was destroyed, and the young fox Jiang Yu escaped with his life. A memory of being saved in the desolate hills was sealed deep within his soul. Back then, Gu Lan had called him “Little Fish,” and that name was buried beneath the cocoon of his childhood memories.
With nowhere else to turn, Little Fish entered the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons. He became a gentle fox demon and spent decades by the Demon Lord Gu Qing’s side. On a long night beneath the full moon, he exhausted his fox spirit to spare Gu Qing the agony of the demon pill burning his soul, believing he had found a kindred spirit in a chaotic world. But when war broke out beyond the borders, Song Sheng laid a vicious trap. Jiang Yu cut out his own demon core and risked his life to save Gu Qing, only to be repaid with disgrace and merciless suspicion.
With his core shattered and his soul broken, he collapsed near death in the barren, miasma-filled valley. The Immortal Venerable Qingxuan, Gu Lan, took him back to the Cloudsea Immortal Mountain. The shock of a demon spy’s ambush broke through his defenses, and the agonizing memories of the demon realm surged back, impossible to suppress. Cracks spread through the seal on his childhood memories, and fleeting fragments of Little Fish often flashed through his dreams.
Unwilling to spend his life merely scraping by, Jiang Yu stepped forward and bowed to join the sect. To protect him, Gu Lan willingly defied ten thousand years of ancestral rules and crossed a thousand frost-covered cloud steps barefoot.
Even after the initiation ceremony was complete, prejudice within the sect and fabricated rumors followed him like shadows. The spies planted by Song Sheng were still stirring up trouble in secret, while the mortal realm was awash in blood from a spreading plague of parasites, and turmoil churned within the demon realm. Bearing wounds all over, Little Fish found himself caught between the upheavals of the immortal and demon realms. Amid nightmares and false accusations, he had to carve out a path of cultivation of his own.
Theme: Being hurt does not mean you have to force yourself to forgive those who hurt you. A broken mirror is hard to mend, but new bonds can be found.
