Shattered Dreams of Glazed Glass

[Chaos Arc]

Changmen's Immortal Xuan Yin and the ferocious beast Hundun: one righteous, one evil. They should have been as incompatible as fire and water, yet they became hopelessly entangled. Was it a moment's stirring of the heart, or a moment of confused passion?

Hundun once said, "What if I only want to watch you fall into darkness?"

He also said, "I will not fall into darkness."

Fall into darkness? Did he, or didn't he?

Was it a test of loyalty, a debt of gratitude, or a matter of the heart?

Who broke their pact first, and who betrayed whom? The divine realm turned its back on him, his fellow disciples tried to kill him, and every time he spared them, he only drove himself closer to the edge.

Hundun once asked, "The Immortal Sect treats you like this. Why do you keep showing them mercy, yet show no mercy at all when it comes to killing me?"

He also said, "Though I have left the Immortal Sect, I will not descend into the ranks of demons." Because he had always remembered Hundun's words...

I only want to watch you fall into darkness.

[Taotie Arc]

Can a ferocious beast have a heart? Does it feel, or is it unfeeling?

"You really are a heartless creature."

Someone had once said that to him in a soft murmur. Though there was a hint of irritation in the words, a gentle curve still lingered at the corners of their mouth.

"If this is what you want, I'll give it to you."

"No!" The desperate scream could not stop him. Thunder crashed down from the heavens, and in an instant, he turned to dust, scattering on the wind without leaving a trace.

Back in the swamp where he had been born, Taotie curled up, burying his face deep in his arms and murmuring over and over.

I'm a ferocious beast. I don't care. I'm a ferocious beast... I don't... care...

[Tao Wu Arc]

He was only a little fox demon who had cultivated for a thousand years beneath Mount Tian. Yet he was ordered to guard Tao Wu, a ferocious beast sealed at the foot of the mountain by Changmen's immortal. His days were dull and tedious, and the one he guarded was quite a handful. So tormenting him became the little fox demon's sole pleasure in life.

Through countless seasons, they were together day and night. In that cold, lonely stretch of time, this fox demon alone stayed by his side, never leaving him. Call it attachment or reluctance to part: with a soulmate like this, what did it matter if he were imprisoned for eternity?

But Heaven always seemed to enjoy playing tricks on people.

To protect him, that foolish fox demon used himself as bait, staining the seal with his blood just to free him. Tao Wu stormed the Ghost Realm, raised havoc in the underworld, and smashed the gates of the Immortal Sect, all for his sake. Yet when they finally met again, Tao Wu had already cultivated an immortal body and been entered into the divine register.

If I had known, I would have chosen to remain imprisoned beneath the world forever, never to emerge.

[Qiong Qi Arc]

Changmen's Heartbinding Art can imprison souls and seal the demonic spirit within a person. It can strip away a demon's body and erase their past, leaving them to live as mortals and endure the cycle of life and death, generation after generation. And yet this very technique was used on a child...

"What's your name?"

"I... My name is Xia Jinhe..."

"I'll take this child in."

The immortal of Changmen, who never accepted little demons or disciples, suddenly took him as his own, all because of the Heartbinding Art within his body. His past and present could not be glimpsed, and his demonic spirit had been locked away. What secrets did this dog hide?

A debt of gratitude, a grudge, a thought of dust. Buddha says ferocious beasts are the greatest threat in this world, but he says they are pitiful.

The threads of fate in this world seem severed, yet remain; tangled, yet untangled. When human bonds are defied and the bond between master and disciple is put to the test, what choice will he make at the crossroads...?