Shenzhou Huaxia, once the home of the gods and the cradle of Chinese civilization, gave birth to countless ancient legends.
Three hundred thousand years ago, she drove the divine sword Yuewu into his chest with her own hands. Faced with all living beings and her beloved, she chose the former.
From then on, a red maple appeared on ancient Lishan Mountain. Its leaves blazed like blood, and when the wind rose and they fell, it was like a shower of blood and tears.
He was banished to the Heaven of Separation by the one he loved most, yet still planted the seeds of karmic ties across three lifetimes for her.
When karma began to turn in its cycle, it became another dazzling firework in the mortal world:
He was once an unparalleled emperor, yet fate cast him beyond the Six Realms. Neither aging nor dying, neither born nor destroyed, he gazed wistfully across a thousand years until he met her, and she became his only tender solace in a heartless world. She was an orphan struggling to survive in the mortal world. War led her to stumble into the realm of immortals, and by a stroke of luck, she and he began a wondrous romance. Yet with life and death on opposite shores, how could they cross the sea of the afterlife within their hearts?
One dream, one awakening, one fleeting life; one frown, one smile, one old friend...
When the hand of the Heavenly Wheel pointed to the fated moment, he broke through his shackles and returned with darkness and disaster in his wake. In his supreme divine form, he looked down upon the crimson earth as a cataclysm that shook the world descended upon Shenzhou Huaxia.
Could the seeds of karma planted in a past life bear fruit in this one?
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