On September 18, dark clouds blanketed the sky and torrential rain battered the city. Beneath the gates, a vast army of one hundred thousand evil cultivators surged forward. In an instant, they could turn Ning'an City into a river of blood.
Jiang Li staggered up to the city gate. Before everyone's eyes, she dug out her own heart. That exquisite heart with seven orifices saved every resident of Ning'an City.
From the day she was born, she had spent her whole life as someone else's substitute. She had never been valued, nor had she ever known love. The only warmth she had ever received ultimately became a sword that wounded her. But she neither hated nor resented anyone. As she closed her eyes and fell from the wall, she still thought: One life in exchange for tens of thousands of lives. It was worth it.
Still, if she could have another life, she only wanted to live a little more for herself.
Jiang Li never expected her next life to come so soon. A few years later, she was resurrected as the spirit of a sword.
The sword was named Heavenly Gift, a peerless divine weapon.
Whether they were gods and Buddhas of the nine heavens or Rakshasa demons, whatever divine weapon they wielded would obediently submit to her.
Without hesitation, she set out on the path of living for herself.
But when she returned to Lin'an City, her feelings became complicated.
They had erected a statue and built a temple for her. She had become a living Bodhisattva in the hearts of Lin'an's people, a deity they worshipped every day.
Later, she returned to the Qingyun Sword Sect and embarked on the path of sword cultivation as a sword spirit.
This time, she was no longer the good-for-nothing junior sister everyone could bully. She proved her Dao through slaughter and became a sword-wielding god!
From then on, it wasn't just the people of Lin'an City who worshipped her.
Everyone under heaven did the same.
What was so great about a protagonist's destined-to-be-a-hero script or a white-moonlight script? Nothing could beat the script of a peerless sword at the top of the food chain.
September 18, beneath the walls of Ning'an City: that was the nightmare of Song Yi's life. His junior sister had refused to look at him again, even as she died.
Three years later, Blood Ghost Mountain opened. Song Yi was no more, and in his place stood an evil cultivator capable of destroying heaven and earth, named Huai Li.
September 18, beneath the walls of Ning'an City: Jing Sheng finally got what he wanted and obtained that exquisite heart with seven orifices. With it, he ascended to the heavens in a single step and became a god of the nine heavens.
But he could never forget the eyes of the woman who fell from the wall. She was like a pure, sacred feather stained with blood, haunting his dreams night after night.
Later, he used that exquisite heart with seven orifices to forge a peerless sword named Heavenly Gift.
Theme: Be brave enough to live for yourself, and brave enough to love