The Divine Clan had recently gained a powerful new God of War.
The Divine Lord sent him to battle, and from then on, he never lost.
But everywhere he went, bones were left scattered across the land, and not a blade of grass grew. People gave him a fearsome nickname: the God of Slaughter.
The Divine Lord sighed and repeatedly warned him to show some restraint.
He agreed, then turned around and slaughtered three more cities.
His actions had ruined much of the Divine Clan's reputation. With no other choice, the Divine Lord summoned him again for a stern lecture.
"Feng Lang, you should do more good deeds while you're alive, or you'll bring retribution upon yourself. From now on, you must obey the Heavenly Dao and abide by the rules of the world."
Feng Lang sneered.
"If I have to go along with this Heaven, then I'll be the first thing to disappear."
After that, he carried on as he pleased.
He had no regard for his ruler and no concern for the common people.
He bowed to neither Heaven nor Earth, and respected neither ghosts nor gods.
He couldn't be killed by heavenly lightning, and no one could best him. Just as the gods were about to question whether the phrase "cause and effect" had any truth to it at all, the dragon ancestor who had roamed free for sixteen thousand years, defying Heaven and Earth without ever meeting an equal, finally faced his comeuppance.
--
Everyone said the God of Slaughter had a heart of stone, but they didn't know that Feng Lang, too, had someone he wished to repay.
Ten thousand years ago, Bodhisattva Tan Che, Mao Xian, had nearly exhausted her lifespan saving him. To extend her life, he sent her to the human realm and accepted the Divine Lord's decree to protect her through three lifetimes.
When he descended to find her in her first life, the little girl had lost her parents and was blind, yet she still smiled as she offered him a cup of snake wine she'd brewed herself, calling it a unique specialty of her shop.
She also said that one day, she would take the snake wine from Little Dragon Wine House out of the mountains and see the world.
Sadly, they were together for only a few brief days before she passed away far too soon.
Before she died, he asked if she had any wishes.
She said, "In my next life, I want a good pair of eyes and to live a little longer than I did in this one, so I can see more of the world."
Feeling he owed her, Feng Lang took her as his disciple in her next life and cherished her like his own daughter.
At her hundred-day celebration, he laid all kinds of treasures before her.
But she stretched out her hand and reached only for him.
Just as years later, when he had offered her everything the world could give, the beautiful young woman tugged open his robes. Their breaths mingled as she whispered in his ear,
"But all I want is my master."
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The Divine Lord said that if she failed to live past sixteen in all three of her lives, I would have to destroy her along with the human race.
I know the human race is the work of her whole life, and what she cares about for the years she has left.
I don't care what the Divine Lord wants, and I care even less about the fate of the human race.
I care only about her.
Heaven showed her no mercy, Earth gave her no protection. When everything abandoned her and even she was ready to give up on herself, I alone fought Heaven and the Heavenly Dao to the death for her.
And yet, I still failed.
I watched over her through three cycles of reincarnation, yet she never lived to see her sixteenth birthday. I watched her radiant beauty turn to bones in the blink of an eye.
Everyone told me this was her destined fate.
But I refused to believe it.
If you cannot survive anywhere else, then I'll create another world for you.
If I can't change your fate, then I'll defy Heaven itself.
[1. This story is mainly about how the male lead changes the female lead's fate, so it primarily follows his perspective, but the entire plot revolves around her.
2. The male and female leads are exclusive to each other, and both are virgins. The male lead is a brutal God of Slaughter in the early chapters, someone who casually wipes out cities and kills without blinking. He will not be whitewashed.]
Theme: Love can make people kinder
