A resilient, kindhearted, slightly foolish heroine X a cool and aloof great demon burdened with a mission
The heroine is purehearted and kind, but not very perceptive (with a hidden background and identity).
The hero is aloof, powerful, loyal, and true to his word.
A story of mutual salvation.
1. When Ye Lizhao was sixteen, demons wiped out her village in a single night.
Her parents and younger brother died before her eyes, and the villagers' bodies were piled into a small mountain.
A cultivator saved her as she lay dying.
Having survived, she decided to climb the mountain and learn to hunt demons.
She heard that there was an expert on Tinglan Mountain. Determined to become his disciple, Ye Lizhao overcame countless hardships and finally arrived.
What she didn't know was that she had climbed the wrong mountain.
She fainted from fright and was carried back to a place called Clear Water Palace.
Before her sat an aloof, handsome expert, leisurely sipping tea with a cool, expressionless face.
Ye Lizhao knelt and begged, "Master, I've come to learn how to hunt demons!"
Her master almost spat out his tea. "Hunt demons?!"
"That's right! I want to hunt down every demon under heaven and keep everyone safe!"
"A... noble ambition..."
Her handsome, kindhearted master took her in. Starting tomorrow, she would finally belong to a sect!
Ye Lizhao, who had no talent for cultivation, never realized that her handsome master and her senior brothers, who indulged her in everything, were all demons.
2. Zhu Jiu was the great demon Zhulong, the Torch Dragon, whose closing eyes brought night and whose opening eyes brought day.
After the war between the human and demon clans, the two sides reached an agreement and divided the realms between them.
Zhu Jiu was the demon stationed at the boundary marker to guard the gate.
He guarded not a piece of paper, but a promise he had made to a human: to protect peace in the mortal world.
He also picked up a half-blood Taotie and a nine-tailed fox whose body had been reduced to a single tail.
But so much time had passed that even Zhu Jiu no longer knew how he had endured all those years.
Until one day, a human girl somehow broke through his barrier.
She even said, "Master, please accept me as your disciple! I want to learn how to hunt demons!"
Her determination reminded Zhu Jiu of the time when he, too, had said to someone, "Master, please accept me as your disciple!"
Her arrival broke the loneliness of many years.
"Master!" "The stove exploded!"
"Master!" "I can't get down! Help!"
"Master!" "I made rice dumplings today. Have one!"
Then one day, Ye Lizhao sniffed and said to him, "Master, I smell a demon!"
3. There was once a time when humans and demons lived in peace.
Later, some demons failed to overcome their nature and harmed countless people. At last, the conflict between humans and demons became impossible to resolve.
A thousand years ago, after a cataclysmic war between humans and demons, the former leaders of the thirteen immortal sects sacrificed themselves to the Dao and sealed the gates to the demon realm.
This brought several hundred years of peace to the mortal world.
As time passed, people gradually forgot the thirteen immortal sects and what they had once done.
Now there are few cultivators left in the world, and even fewer willing to endure such pointless hardship.
But disasters caused by demons have gradually grown more frequent, and the thirteen immortal sects have once again returned to the public eye.
Has the gate to the demon realm been breached?
Theme: No matter where you come from, hard work can still create miracles.
