[Honghuang] A Different Shanhai

As the title says.

The Shennong line had fourteen emperors. By the time of Yu Wang, Shennong was in decline and the Xuanyuan Clan was on the rise.

By rights, what should have come next was "the Red Heaven falls, the Yellow Heaven rises," in the year of...

But I digress. In short, Ji Xuanyuan should have become the overlord and succeeded to the throne as the Human Emperor. Then something unexpected happened.

The daughter of Emperor Yu Wang single-handedly halted her tribe's decline, and seemed poised to make the Red Heaven rise and prevent the Yellow Heaven from ascending.

Ji Xuanyuan: Where did this Imperial Daughter come from?

Yinghua awoke from a strange dream and looked at the mountains and seas before her. She could no longer tell which had been the dream and which was reality.

Her father, Emperor Yu Wang, was still in his prime, yet his aged face remained vivid in her mind.

That was after her elder sister had followed Chi Songzi away, and her younger sister Yao Ji had died before she could leave.

As for her...

Yinghua recalled the only record of her in the later world, the one she had seen in her dream:

The Imperial Daughter sought the Way and attained immortality. She built a nest in a mulberry tree on Mount E in Nanyang, where she lived. At times she transformed into a white magpie. The Red Emperor was grief-stricken when he saw her. Unable to lure her back, he burned the tree with fire, and she ascended to Heaven. Thus she came to be called the Imperial Daughter Mulberry.

If you asked when Yinghua realized she was living in a prehistoric fantasy world, it probably began when Chi Songzi tried to sell her on the Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain.

Once you bring up the Primordial Lord of Heaven, you have to mention the Three Pure Ones. And if you mention the Three Pure Ones, you have to include Old Ancestor Hongjun. So Yinghua listened as Chi Songzi gave her a rundown of history from the creation of the world onward.

Pangu created the world, the first great calamity of the dragons and phoenixes, Nuwa Creates Humans, the war between the Wu and the demons, the Heavenly Sovereign Fuxi taking his place...

Yinghua: So I wasn't reborn into ancient times, but came to a parallel world? Or is this just an ancient world in the prehistoric fantasy genre?

The story of the daughter of the Flame Emperor, who awakens from a dream, improves her clan's way of life, and seeks immortality and the Way.

The heroine is probably obsessed with cultivation.

This is a story about an Imperial Daughter who has witnessed the changing seas and shifting times, seeking the Way and cultivating immortality in a prehistoric world.

A story born from a flight of fancy.

Synopsis written on December 14, 2022.

The Red Emperor's daughter from the south studied the Way and attained immortality. She lived in a mulberry tree on Mount E in Nanyang. On the first day of the first lunar month, she began gathering twigs to build a nest, completing it on the fifteenth. At times she appeared as a white magpie, at times as a woman.

The Red Emperor was grief-stricken when he saw her. Unable to lure her back, he burned the tree with fire, and she ascended to Heaven. Thus she came to be called the Imperial Daughter Mulberry.

Guang Yi Ji

Content warnings:

The heroine is probably, maybe, more or less obsessed with cultivation. She will definitely cultivate immortality.

This is a romance.

The male lead is set.

Theme: Immortals are both immortal and human. Stand firmly in the present and look to the future.