Once upon a time, there was a mountain. At its foot stood a temple, and inside was a small sect. The young sect leader and her little disciples dug and dug their way through the vast world.
They dug up ginseng to cure mortals and immortal herbs to save cultivators.
Ask where she came from? The White Jade Capital in the heavens.
Ask where she is headed? Down to the human world.
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Zhitai was the woman every female cultivator in the entire cultivation world envied most.
As a child, she was taken in on a whim of kindness by a young scion of a cultivation family and brought home as her companion. For over a decade, she kept a low profile and dutifully did as she was told. Then, one day, the young scion fled an arranged marriage. Her intended, a man of lofty status, pointed casually at Zhitai and said, “Then her.”
The White Jade Capital in the heavens, with its twelve towers and five cities.
Zhitai had stumbled into the greatest windfall of all: she became the young mistress of the First City, and later the wife of an Immortal Venerable.
Everyone laughed at her for being too low-class, all the while gnashing their teeth with jealousy over her good fortune.
But as Zhitai looked at her husband, she thought: Just as I suspected, we do not walk the same path, and we cannot work together.
Zhitai broke their bond with her husband and walked down from the White Jade Capital, one step at a time, without looking back.
You pursue your Great Dao. I cherish all living beings.
Though the moss flower is as small as a grain of rice, it, too, learns to bloom like a peony.
[Character setup: A gentle, compassionate, saintly heroine * a hero who follows the Heartless Dao to the very end]
[Key point: “Saintly” is not meant as an insult here! The hero really does cultivate the Heartless Dao!]
Blurb written on November 8, 2023
Theme: Boundless compassion
