Beyond All Emotion

Han Chunxin was abandoned by her family as a child. Fortunately, the immortal sect took her in, bringing her up the mountain to care for and teach her. Her master, Gu Xiansheng, patiently taught her to write and play the zither, as well as the ways of the world. He raised her into a lively, carefree girl who sparkled with confidence. When she was older, she asked her master what path she should cultivate. Gu Xiansheng glanced at her and said, the path of ruthlessness. From then on, Han Chunxin cultivated diligently, secretly swearing she would never disappoint her master's expectations. But she couldn't hold back the stirrings of a young girl's heart, as spring came and the grass grew green. That year, heavy snow snapped the plum branches. Just as she was about to break her cultivation, Gu Xiansheng plunged his sword into her heart. Enduring the agony of having her heart pierced and bones scraped clean, she asked through tears why. Gu Xiansheng answered that he had adopted her for this very moment: her heart's blood could substitute for five hundred years of cultivation. Han Chunxin understood. So all along, every hint of romance had existed only in her own imagination. She had simply been blinded by someone's helpless, faint smile. How could she have forgotten? Her master cultivated the path of ruthlessness too. - Han Chunxin was reborn. She severed all feelings for Gu Xiansheng and devoted herself entirely to cultivating the path of ruthlessness. But in a place beyond her knowledge, Gu Xiansheng transferred the tribulation of love that should have been hers onto himself. He exchanged a thousand years of cultivation for her rebirth, then cycled through time for a hundred and eighty years, enduring heavenly punishment a hundred and eighty times. All so she could live safely, smoothly, happily, and in good health. - Theme: To be added later