The Legend of the Fire Enchantress and the Heavenly Phoenix

She was Miaosheng, the exalted princess of the demon race in the Sixth Heaven, adored by all yet devoted to only one: that young man from the Eastern Yun Clan.

He was Lord Muyun, the mysterious clan leader of the Yun, a people who stood apart from the Three Realms. Resourceful and wise, he led his clan out of hardship and step by step to the pinnacle of the Three Realms.

Without that fleeting glance in the apricot grove, they would never have fallen into such all-consuming longing across the Nine Provinces and Six Directions.

Without three thousand years of relentless searching, how could they have found their destined match across a thousand miles?

On Mount Sumeru, the young him tossed and turned for the sake of a beautiful face. Outside the library, he, now revered as the Cloud God, grew flustered at the sight of that familiar figure.

Little did he know that beneath the Bodhi tree, she was no longer the same person. She had forgotten her past and become someone new.

At the Lord of Clouds’ manor, time treated them kindly. At Lingxi Academy, they bickered and played.

He thought that at last, he truly had her, in heaven and on earth.

She thought that they had met when they were both at their lowest, saved each other in times of peril, and pledged themselves to each other on Yun Mountain, to stay together through life and death.

But they forgot that good fortune may conceal misfortune, and misfortune may conceal good fortune.

The Buddha says all things are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows, like dew and lightning.

He refused to believe it. He fought back, but in the end he fell to an ambush on all sides.

When they parted in Yun Valley, her heart shattered. She trampled her own dignity into the dust.

She sang “Yun Gu Yao” alone, but the person who had once treasured her never came back.

From then on, he took up residence in the Earthfire Palace, guarding the peace of that land for her.

From then on, she fell to the lower realms and embarked on the path of tempering herself into a demon.

Five hundred years later, she became the Demon Venerable. Once her memories of the past returned, she searched for him obsessively, just as that young man of the Yun Clan had once searched for her for three thousand years...