On the day of her grand wedding to the Celestial Crown Prince, noble Lady Yaotang
fell from immortality.
No one knew why or where she had gone.
The Crown Prince shut himself away in the Shangqing Palace on the Ninth Heaven for a hundred years.
Lady Yaotang's whereabouts remained unknown.
No god across the Three Realms and Five Wastelands dared mention the matter again.
A thousand years later,
at the border between the mortal realm and the Demon Realm, an inn called Tenfold Peace opened.
The proprietress was a ravishing beauty with an air of mystery. No one knew where she came from.
Over the centuries, the inn had become a refuge for the Three Realms and Five Wastelands.
An immortal maiden who had broken the Heavenly Laws hid there with her mortal lover, fleeing their pursuers.
Wu Dalang, poisoned to death by his own wife and denied reincarnation, wailed and complained in the main hall.
A handsome young scholar recited the exact same story every single day.
After enduring a trial in the mortal world, the proprietress returned with her whole family in tow.
A cherubic little toddler searched high and low for their father.
The Clairvoyant said that the Celestial Lord, who had never been tainted by the mortal world, had come down from the Ninth Heaven, weary from his travels, and drunk himself into a stupor at the inn.
The King of Hell said that the Demon Lord had thrown such a fit that the evil spirits in the Eighteen Levels of Hell were desperately trying to do good deeds and build up merit.
The identity of the child's father had become the biggest piece of gossip across the Three Realms and Five Wastelands...
A little scene:
With a great enemy before them, the Demon Lord asked,
