Huo Ciyao, the Merciful Dao Lord, is the last phoenix in the world. He commands the fortune of the immortal sects and possesses unsurpassed virtue.
Among the three thousand realms, all revere and respect him, and none dare show him anything but the utmost respect.
...Except for the demon Shi Fei, who stands in opposition to him, locked in a fight to the death.
The two hated and tried to kill each other for eight hundred years, yet both ended up badly wounded, and neither gained the slightest advantage.
Then Xuanwei Immortal Mansion, the greatest orthodox sect in the cultivation world, launched a surprise attack while Shi Fei was weak. Shi Fei was ultimately defeated, his body and soul destroyed.
Shi Fei's only regret... was that he never got to kill Huo Ciyao with his own hands before he died!
Five hundred years later, Shi Fei opens his eyes, reborn in the body of a beautiful weakling with little cultivation, bound and offered to a certain demon as a cultivation furnace.
It is said that this demon is bloodthirsty and unpredictable. Back in the day, he nearly slaughtered all 180 members of the Xuanwei Sect. The sky turned bloodred, and not a blade of grass has grown within three hundred miles of the sect ever since.
Everyone in the cultivation world fears him, but no one dares challenge him, for no one can match his cultivation.
There is also a rumor that the demon once had a deceased Dao companion. Back then, the entire world, across all three thousand realms, searched in vain for that companion's soul. Strange celestial phenomena appeared, and the cries of countless birds filled the air.
After Shi Fei is brought into the hall, he sees his old nemesis, who had shown mercy to all living beings and should have ascended long ago. Barefoot and with his hair unbound, he looks nearly insane, delicately crushing someone's skull between his fingers...
Shi Fei: ?
In this new life, Shi Fei is determined to kill his old nemesis with his own hands and avenge his past humiliation.
But when he thrusts his sword, his nemesis's bloodstained fingertips gently lift his chin. Looking dazed, as if dreaming, he murmurs, "A-Fei..."
Shi Fei: ?!
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Shi Fei often dreams in this life.
He dreams of the five hundred years after his death, when his old nemesis practiced forbidden arts, extracted a phoenix's bones, and defied the laws of heaven, all to bring one person back to life through nirvana.
For this person, his nemesis became frail and sickly, and his Dao heart shattered.
The once-renowned leader of the orthodox path, the Merciful Dao Lord, fell into depravity and became a deranged, bloodthirsty demon feared by the entire world.
Shi Fei thinks that perhaps, after he died, his old nemesis found true love and lived happily ever after.
Until he sees the rumored portrait of his nemesis's deceased wife.
...It is a portrait of a young Shi Fei, from so many thousands of years ago that he's lost count.
[An unrestrained, sharp-tongued, brash, occasionally deadpan-humorous, absolutely straight-thinking, beautiful but tragic bottom X a former orthodox-path aloof beauty who is secretly sulky, later a top who goes mad at the drop of a hat]
[Huo Ciyao is the top, Shi Fei is the bottom]
1. The top is a phoenix, the bottom is bamboo.
2. The top and bottom once had a phoenix egg.
3. A bittersweet romance
August 2, 2024
Theme: Respect your nemesis
