Danyan was a teal spirit lotus, carefully tended by Daoist Hongjun in the Zixiao Palace. After a thousand years, he took human form and listened to lectures on the Dao alongside Hongjun's disciples, including Pangu and Nuwa.
If nothing unexpected happened, he would attain the Primordial before that little wicked snake Nuwa, and finally get his moment to shine.
But who could have expected that before he attained the Primordial, he would first be uprooted by the Demon Ancestor Luohou, who had been longing for him all this time?
Danyan: What the hell? Have you no manners?
His true form was stolen, leaving only a bare stalk in the immortal pool, where it slowly withered.
When even his primordial spirit was about to slip away and be stolen by Luohou along with his true form, Hongjun had no choice but to cruelly scatter it into fragments, which fell from the ninth heaven.
Just before Danyan's consciousness dissolved, Hongjun tied a red thread around his wrist. The man's face gradually blurred before his eyes.
As he was nearly gone, he heard Hongjun let out a soft sigh.
Danyan, return to my side before I merge with the Heavenly Dao.
Part Two:
When Danyan woke again, he was stunned to discover that his primordial spirit had shattered into five pieces.
The magical red thread Hongjun had given him told him that if he cultivated the Heavenly Dao's path of ruthless detachment, he could become a god and return to the ninth heaven.
Danyan immediately perked up at the news, but the moment he saw where the pieces of his primordial spirit had fallen, his spirits sank.
One piece had landed in the Netherworld Blood Sea, where the Asura clan was born, and stubbornly taken root in the Blood Amber Demon Pool of the Ancestor of the Nether River, Yezhi.
The Blood Amber Demon Pool was also known as... Yezhi's lavish, private bath.
Danyan was hopping mad: Could you pick somewhere else? Believe me, if you keep peeking at Yezhi in the bath, he'll uproot you!
But later, not only did Yezhi leave his root alone, it even grew thick and strong, thriving on the demonic energy in the Blood Amber Pool.
And so Danyan understood. The Ancestor of the Nether River, Yezhi, was into this sort of thing. Good grief!
His second piece of primordial spirit landed on the Fusang tree in the Eastern Sea. A crimson three-legged Golden Crow carried it back to its nest and couldn't stop playing with it.
Danyan (kid.exe has stopped working.jpg): Lord Lu Ya, you're nothing like the rumors! And... you're so hot!!!! Help! Help!
He successfully retrieved four pieces of his primordial spirit. Just as he was one piece away from attaining the Heavenly Dao's path of ruthless detachment, he discovered that the fifth piece was in the hands of Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
Danyan (excited and timid.jpg): Dao Ancestor, I think I accidentally played with the hearts of four younger fellow disciples.
Hongjun smiled faintly: Is that so, little green lotus? What about me?
Danyan: … (Should I work up the courage to try playing with his heart, too?)
But as it turned out, the Dao Ancestor was still the Dao Ancestor.
In the end, he didn't attain the Dao. He attained a Dao Ancestor instead.
Danyan, bottom x Hongjun, top
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