Why Are You Riding the Wind, Sir?

In the Northern Abyss lives a divine fish.

Born with crystalline eyes and a body like the vault of heaven, the fish is pure of heart and has no desire to contend with the world. Its voice is clear and light, its words like pearls and jade. It wanders freely through the vast sea, swallowing the tides and growing, unaware of the passage of time.

On an immortal island ten li away, a flower of jade blooms. After absorbing the essence of heaven for ages, it transforms into a girl named Qing Su. Pure and kindhearted, Qing Su befriends the divine fish. The fish finds her natural and unadorned, and grows fonder of her day by day.

One day, Qing Su bids it farewell with a smile and leaves to travel the immortal realms. The fish cannot bear to part with her, so it gives her a Xuanyuan Pearl, and they promise to meet again.

A year passes, but she does not return. A few remnants of her consciousness drift down into the Northern Abyss.

The divine fish examines them and recognizes her. Shaken and horrified, it asks the Lady of the Abyss what happened. She says:

When the Immortal King of Chujiang married, Qing Su went to offer her congratulations.

The pearl happened to show, and evil thoughts arose.

Fearing the scandal would spread, they secretly destroyed her soul.

This grudge can only be settled with blood. The heavens are unjust!

The divine fish regrets it bitterly, eyes bloodshot, and transforms into a frenzied Kunpeng.

It has cultivated an undying body for ten thousand years. All it lacks is one final trial to make its name.

It devours seventy-two Immortal Lords to the east, then rages through the stars, making enemies for millennia.

It overturns Chujiang and swallows the Cloud Elixir, then, still consumed by fury, slays fifty more immortals.

It stirs the heavens, swallows the earth, and brings calamity upon calamity for countless ages.

Its endless depths defy the north and provoke heaven's wrath.

At last, it is buried on a desolate star, forgotten by all.

Who would have guessed? It was not the Kunpeng who betrayed heaven!

My name is Li Yaowan.

A flower from an immortal tree, a fruit borne down by the autumn wind.

One day, I will ride the wind and soar ninety thousand li through the clouds.

With nowhere to settle in the mortal world, one day I will cry out in the highest heavens.