Burning Pyres / Shura Fields / Over-the-Top Harem Drama
[Blurb]
Bi Fangjin is immortal. That's no secret.
Other than that, though, he's a useless layabout nobody likes. He's also mild-mannered, so anyone can come along and pick on him.
1.
Bi Fangjin went down the mountain on a mission and ran into a demonic cultivator who practiced corpse refinement. To protect his junior brother, he was shoved into a pit of corpses without a moment's hesitation by his friend.
As he fell, he turned to look. There was no one there, only a voice saying, "It's not like he'll die anyway."
Later, after being tortured by the demonic cultivator until he was at death's door, Bi Fangjin finally escaped and returned to the sect. There, he saw a bright red, festive banner as his fellow disciples busily celebrated the apprenticeship ceremony for the junior brother who had just been found.
2.
Kunlun Sacred Mountain tops the industry in its annual demon-subjugation quota. The reason is simple: other sects have to expend great effort and priceless magical treasures to subdue demons, while Kunlun Sacred Mountain has always done just one thing.
Throw Bi Fangjin out to take the damage, then stab the demonic cultivators in the back.
He's physically frail and unlikely to achieve greatness, but his blood has an uncanny ability to attract those strange creatures.
The senior and junior disciples easily subdue the demonic cultivators without a scratch. Behind them, Bi Fangjin follows with his head bowed, covered in blood and slowly recovering. They chuckle, "It's not like he can die anyway."
3.
Then, on the day of the Divine Grace War, the cultivators led by Kunlun Sacred Mountain were locked in fierce battle with the Demon Realm when the sect's beloved junior brother was captured by a demon envoy.
The Great Demon Envoy had long heard that Kunlun Sacred Mountain had an immortal who had caused their demonic cultivators no end of trouble. Holding the junior brother by the collar, he declared, "Have your immortal publicly executed by a thousand cuts, and I'll return him to you."
Looking at the junior brother, eyes brimming with tears but putting on a brave front, and at Bi Fangjin, covered in blood and barely standing, everyone wavered for a moment.
"He won't die anyway..."
"Right, it's not like he can die anyway."
"The junior brother only has one life, but Bi Fangjin is immortal!"
In the end, Bi Fangjin's betrothed, Kunlun Sacred Mountain's chief senior disciple, coldly gave the order: "Make the trade."
That day, Bi Fangjin died.
His blood poured out like an endless sea, and his body and soul perished.
They say quite a few people at Kunlun Sacred Mountain went mad afterward. But so what? The immortal still died at the hands of his own people.
After the newly awakened Demon Venerable finished purging a civil war in the Demon Realm, he frowned and held the unconscious Bi Fangjin, asking irritably, "Then who is he?"
A red vermilion mark adorned his forehead, with golden Sanskrit engraved upon it. For the past five thousand years, it had been the mark of the Heavenly Dao.
"After fighting for so long, this is what you look like?"
Demon Venerable You Hua sized him up leisurely and scoffed with disdain.
"Looks like even the Heavenly Dao doesn't amount to much when it descends to the mortal realm."
Theme: Love is surrendering to free will
