Li Mingyan had a prophetic dream.
Three hundred years later, the Yingzhou Continent would be awash in blood, with countless lives lost. The Demon Venerable Shilou would seek to live as long as heaven and earth, while her senior brother fought to the death, using his battered body as a seal. Beside him stood a pretty young beauty in pink silk and white satin, supporting him as she wept and stared at the Nether Venerable through tear-filled eyes.
Looking at the scene, Li Mingyan could only marvel that her senior brother had done pretty well for himself in three hundred years. He could actually go toe-to-toe with a great demon.
But if something like this happened in the Great Ying, how could she, a direct disciple, not be there?
As it turned out, three hundred years earlier, she had died after that silly junior sister accidentally shoved her into the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts.
Afterward, the junior sister tearfully asked her senior brother, "Can Senior Sister still be saved?"
Shang Shanyin glanced coldly at the abyss below. "Let's go. Master is waiting for you to report back."
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From the moment Li Mingyan entered the Tianxuan Sect, she was at odds with the junior sister whose remarkable talent had been celebrated for a hundred years.
When the junior sister took an interest in a cultivation technique, Li Mingyan monopolized the books, altered the instructions, trained herself to the peak, then tossed her the incomplete version.
When the junior sister took a fancy to a spirit pet, Li Mingyan beat it until it yelped and its face was bruised, making it beg to form a contract with her before she finally stopped.
And then there was the senior brother the junior sister liked...
"The Tianxuan Sect forbids bullying fellow disciples. Li Mingyan, do you know your crime?"
Li Mingyan gazed at Shang Shanyin's strikingly cold face. A wicked impulse took hold, and she smiled provocatively. "Has anyone ever told you that you look especially different when you're angry?"
Shang Shanyin frowned.
Li Mingyan drawled, "So alluring, it makes a person imagine all sorts of things, Senior Brother."
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Keywords: foil character, amnesia trope, female supporting character with her own System, play the pig to eat the tiger, ensemble cast at a sect, slow burn, melodrama, adversarial relationship.
*Daily insults aimed at Senior Brother
Theme: The Great Way is as clear as the sky. When the Way is obscured, the divine sword emerges.
