After ascending to godhood, Mo Youqing met Shaochang Liyuan, the Azure Emperor, and was appointed a divine consort and Little Star Sovereign. Shaochang Liyuan hoped she would become his empress and lured her into signing a marriage contract lasting ten thousand years. After a brief period of happiness together, Shaochang Liyuan went to inscribe their names on the Stone of Matrimony. The stone revealed what had happened while he lay unconscious: his soul had once descended to the lower world, where he had been an old acquaintance of Mo Youqing. After learning that a deadly calamity awaited him, Shaochang Liyuan had descended a hundred years earlier to evade it, taking the identity of Yu Changli, a lay disciple at Prajna Temple in the Yunfu Realm. A black rabbit grew up alongside him in the temple. After consuming a piece of his divine flesh and blood, it transformed into a Taiyin Mystic Rabbit. Years later, the Taiyin Mystic Rabbit cultivated a human form and sought him out, and the two reunited. To keep the rabbit from becoming a cultivation furnace coveted by all the cultivators under heaven, Yu Changli took her in as his junior sister and named her “Mo Youqing.” He personally taught her proper conduct and behavior, and in the process they gradually fell deeply in love. When Mo Youqing was surrounded by cultivators from across the world and stood on the brink of death, Yu Changli’s heart softened. Mo Youqing seized the chance to turn the tables and imprison him. Long obsessed with Yu Changli, Mo Youqing tried to force him into becoming her husband. But as she absorbed his divine power, she triggered the divine realm’s protective restriction, “The Great Dao Is Unfeeling,” which forcibly stripped away Yu Changli’s love and brought the Azure Emperor’s soul back to the divine realm. After Yu Changli left, Mo Youqing devoted herself to cultivation and soon became a great demon of the Yunfu Realm. A hundred years later, she ascended once more. Since Mo Youqing was herself an accumulation of demons and monsters, continuing to ascend would only unleash demonic energy into other realms and bring endless calamity. The incarnation of Yu Changli’s lingering love, Jing Yuanhai, ambushed her as she ascended, causing her ascent to fail. Struck by the Heavenly Dao’s backlash, she was left paralyzed from the waist down, then abducted by Jing Yuanhai and married off in the mortal world. There, Mo Youqing faked her death, seized Jing Yuanhai’s demon core, restored her cultivation, and ascended to the upper realm. Having learned the truth of their past, Shaochang Liyuan flew into a rage, unable to accept that he had been killed twice. While the two were sulking at each other, Mo Youqing descended to the lower world to remove the demonic energy left behind by her earlier ascension, and died. Shaochang Liyuan regretted everything. He nurtured her soul until she came back to life, only then learning that he had stolen the destined partner of Mingwu, a general of the divine realm. He realized that affection could not be won by force and that they needed to understand each other. So he took the initiative, offered Mo Youqing a truce, and promised to stay by her side for the rest of their lives.
