Immortal Lord Rong Xue foresaw that a tribulation of love would befall him. To face it, he willingly descended to the mortal realm and became the sect leader of a Cultivation sect.
He didn't know who his tribulation would involve, so he looked around and narrowed it down to three candidates:
His graceful, gentle junior sister, who had grown up with him;
The unruly Sword Venerable, who admired him above all others;
And his obsessive archenemy, who regarded him as the rival of a lifetime.
But Ning Rongxue never expected the true tribulation of love to emerge from nowhere in the form of his usually obedient little disciple.
The little disciple told him he loved him and cherished him, coaxing Ning Rongxue into giving him his heart. Then he turned around and imprisoned him in Golden Crying Pool, extracting the dragon blood from his body to cure his frail childhood friend.
In the end, Ning Rongxue drew his sword and killed himself, ending this long tribulation of love and returning to his former state as an emotionless, desireless immortal lord.
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Three hundred years later, a Demon Venerable wreaked havoc in the upper realm, unleashing a storm of bloodshed in search of his deceased lover.
The righteous factions begged Immortal Lord Rong Xue to emerge from seclusion and suppress the demon.
He picked up his Mountain and Sea Sword and went to the demon realm, where he saw a familiar face.
Xie Yushu, dressed in black, sat high on a grand hall dais, surrounded by mountains of corpses and seas of blood. His expression was sinister. He had indeed fallen to the demonic path.
Immortal Lord Rong Xue's heart was still as water as he drove his sword through Xie Yushu's chest.
Xie Yushu neither dodged nor retreated. Instead, he stepped forward again and again, trying to embrace Ning Rongxue with his bloodstained hands.
He murmured, his words tender and lingering:
"Master, I've finally found you..."
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The gong chases his lover to the crematorium
Theme: Turning back is hard. Please cherish what you have
