After spending three hundred years as an Immortal Venerable on Canglan Mountain, Xu Suiyu was exposed as being half-ghost.
Then someone accused him of being involved in the ghost outbreaks that had plagued the Immortal Alliance for years. Of the eighteen massacres that wiped out entire sects, he had a hand in seven. The charges of colluding with the ghosts and harboring sinister intentions seemed beyond dispute.
His disciples conspired to capture him and imprison him on You Mountain for three years. When he died, the entire Immortal Alliance celebrated. Afterward, they tore out his tendons and flayed him, supposedly to appease the souls who had died at his hands over the years.
But in the second year after his death, the ghost plague erupted in full force. Malevolent energy spread, and ghosts ran rampant. After suffering heavy losses battling the ghost cultivators, the people of the Immortal Alliance finally understood that they had hated the wrong person and killed the wrong person.
But the dead cannot return to life. Xu Suiyu, that bloodstained cinnabar mole, was etched into the hearts of everyone in the Immortal Alliance forever.
Xu Suiyu wasn't dead, but he didn't seem to be alive, either.
His remnant soul was lodged in a puppet turned into a medicinal human by a ghost cultivator. He was sent as a furnace to the Ghost King's foremost general. With him was Jiang Li, an icy beauty captured from the Immortal Alliance by the ghost cultivators. Xu Suiyu had been tended for three years before he finally began to regain consciousness. He thought: ...Are you trying to get yourselves killed? Do you have any idea how many people in the Immortal Alliance would fight for this person? They'd flatten everything within a hundred miles!
He trembled with fear and planned to escape before the Immortal Alliance could attack.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as he wished. He watched the people of the Immortal Alliance storm the ghost general's palace and wipe out every ghost inside. Yet instead of rushing to find Jiang Li, they all dropped to their knees in front of him.
Well, at least their kneeling form was pretty good.
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