A little phoenix with exceptional talent and spiritual roots was born on Mount Nanwu. The Emperor of Nanwu boasted to everyone that his genes had been passed down well.
But six hundred years later, the little phoenix still hadn't overcome its life-and-death tribulation.
For others, a life-and-death tribulation meant either death or rebirth, and one only got a single chance. But for the phoenix clan, it meant awakening their intelligence and being reborn in a blaze of phoenix fire. In truth, all they had to do was take a nap.
Worried sick about his son, the Emperor of Nanwu, at the urging of the Grand Fate-Decree Official of the Ninth Heaven, packed up the little phoenix and sent it to the residence of the Emperor of Beiyuan, a man with a warm face but a cold heart who kept everyone at a distance.
