[A sudden burst of inspiration. Posting the first three chapters as a preview.]
[White Luan Goddess vs. Demon Lord of Youdu]
Everyone in the Six Realms knows that the divine bird White Luan clan has a goddess whom the entire clan cherishes.
They say the goddess was born under auspicious signs, with purple clouds filling the sky and birds circling the rafters. From birth, she possessed the Six Realms' purest and truest spirit pearl.
Lady Jiangzhu was delighted, and gave the newborn Qiming two hard punches. "This child was clever from the day she was born."
"..."
Yes, that goddess was Qiming.
Qiming herself has nothing but contempt for the rumors about her.
To prove that it was all baseless gossip, from the moment she became conscious, she went out of her way to oppose her clan.
The clan members said, "The goddess is clever and quick-witted."
Qiming: "One plus one equals zero."
The clan members said, "The goddess is young and accomplished."
Qiming: "Over a hundred years old, all I do is eat and sleep. Besides burrowing underground, I can't do a thing."
The clan members said, "The goddess is gentle and discerning."
Qiming pondered for a moment, then turned around and found her childhood sweetheart and beat him until his face was bruised and swollen.
Her childhood sweetheart, Jiyan: ...Can I ask what I did?
Later, while gathering medicinal herbs in the mountains, Qiming happened upon a little eel that had fallen from the sky.
Full of excitement, she brought the eel back to Nüchuang Mountain, planning to make a nourishing soup with medicinal herbs to help her brain.
But while she was boiling the water, her secret-recipe little eel turned into a naked man!
She looked at the young man with his damp eyes and complained, "Who told you to steal my eel and eat it?"
Naked young man: "Mmm?"
One day, Qiming heard a new rumor.
The clan members said, "The goddess has lofty ambitions. She's free of emotion and desire, and devotes herself to the Way."
Qiming, pulling on a rope: ?
The little eel hanging from the tree: ?
So she let go of the rope, wrapped her arms around the clingy eel spirit who followed her everywhere, and announced to the world, "This is my kept pretty boy. We're getting married!"
[The Serious-Sounding Synopsis]
Two thousand years ago, Xize, then the Lord of Taixu, suffered a backlash from his path of emotionlessness and went mad. In a single day, he fell from his lofty position as a divine lord and became a demon reviled by everyone.
For two thousand years, he searched across countless mountains and rivers, but could never find the missing fragment of his divine soul. At last, the gods came to subdue him. Gravely wounded, he fell into a deep slumber.
When he awoke, he found memories that didn't belong to him in his mind.
They seemed to be... memories of a little dragon and a great white bird.
The path of emotionlessness, the sword's sorrow. Xize raises his murderous halberd once more, only to be struck by a sudden surge of spiritual energy, at once familiar and strange.
The Way is formless, and all things are born from it. Qiming holds a sword in one hand and touches her lips with the other, softly chanting a spell. In an instant, dead trees bloom anew and all things come back to life.
"The Great Way is formless and saves all living things. Wherever there are living beings, there is the Way. This Way is formless, so it is called the 'Way of Formlessness.'"
"The Way may be formless, but people have form."
"Xize, I will help you be reborn."
Theme: Be self-reliant and strong
