Jade Resonance Across a Thousand Mountains

1.

The world was in chaos, with demons and monsters running rampant.

Lu Chanji lost both her parents when she was young. Before the age of five, she drifted from place to place, homeless and without shelter.

But in the winter of her fifth year, she met Lu Wenshu, a sword-obsessed boy.

The boy's eyes were calm and distant, yet he said to her, "Come with me to the Chengjian Sect. From now on, no one will dare bully or humiliate you." From then on, Lu Chanji stayed by Lu Wenshu's side.

Though Lu Chanji had no immortal bones, she possessed a keen mind. In just ten years, with Lu Wenshu's help, she broke the killing technique that had remained unbroken for a hundred years, the greatest sword technique in the Ten Continents of the Vast Sea.

Lu Wenshu rose to unmatched fame. Everyone who knew the truth assumed Lu Chanji and Lu Wenshu would become cultivation partners. That is, until Lu Chanji's eighteenth year, when Lu Wenshu took another woman's hand in front of everyone.

At the time, Lu Chanji was chained beside the Sword-Forging Cliff, about to be sacrificed to the sword.

Only as her soul was about to be destroyed did Lu Chanji realize that the gratitude and kindness of the past thirteen years had been nothing but an illusion.

Thirteen years earlier, Lu Wenshu had saved Lu Chanji because he could tell at a glance that her constitution was special and that she would make the perfect offering to a sword.

He saved her only to kill her.

But Lu Wenshu never imagined that one day the girl he had killed would stand before him again, using the blood from his heart to polish the sword in her hand.

2.

Wei Shengming was born into a renowned orthodox sect. Brilliant from childhood and unmatched in appearance, he was the most famous swordsman in the Ten Continents of the Vast Sea. The killing technique he created as a youth remained unbroken a century later.

Later, a second sword cultivator genius appeared in the Ten Continents of the Vast Sea: Lu Wenshu.

At first, Wei Shengming paid him no mind. When Lu Wenshu broke the supposedly unbreakable killing technique, Wei Shengming finally took notice. Gradually, he came to see Lu Wenshu as a worthy rival and looked forward to crossing swords with him.

Until one day, Wei Shengming happened to discover that there was someone else behind Lu Wenshu.

She was the one who had broken the killing technique. She was the one who had truly crossed swords with him. She was the one he should have regarded as his rival.

But when Wei Shengming finally managed to meet her, it was on her eighteenth birthday, as the girl's body plummeted from a cliff. He couldn't even catch the hem of her clothes.

After that day, the greatest sword in the Ten Continents of the Vast Sea was never drawn again.

Wei Shengming developed a heart demon.

Its name was Lu Chanji.

For many years to come, she became the unspoken longing in his heart, the one he could never have.

3.

An unknown number of years after her death, Lu Chanji woke again and encountered a wretched, weathered man by the Sword-Forging Cliff. The cliff keeper told her that the man came there at the end of every year.

She asked what he came here for. He said he had come to reminisce with an old friend.

Lu Chanji thought he was crazy. There was no one as far as the eye could see, not a soul around. What old friend could he possibly have here? There was only her, a "ghost" risen from the dead.

Only later did she learn that the old friend he spoke of really was her.

When I first met you, I had already known you for a thousand years.

[Cool-headed genius girl with a warm heart x aloof beauty fallen from her pedestal] [Together, they fight their way back to the top] [The worldbuilding contains many personal additions; this is my take on cultivation fantasy]

[Original title: After Becoming the Heart Demon of My Former Enemy, later renamed Jade Resonates Across a Thousand Mountains]

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Theme: If immortals are unkind, how are they different from demons and evil spirits? Why not kill them?