Tracing Shadows Back to the Ruins

He gave up his divine throne and descended into reincarnation, all to repay the debt of a betrayal on the Cliff of No Return.

She wore a fragrance talisman and dreamed of the past each night, glimpsing a bygone era where the heavenly way and the Asuras were entwined in blood and fire.

Shen Qingyan gave Lin Tan a “Shadow Tracing” fragrance talisman.

Lin Tan put it on, and nightmares haunted her from then on: fingertips slipping away beneath the water, a divine general closing his eyes and turning aside on the battlefield, and a farewell left unspoken.

She did not know that this gentle incense maker had once been Xuanzhao, a divine general who wielded the power of punishment and war in the highest heavens.

To find her reincarnation, he gave away all his accumulated merit and willingly endured the pain of reincarnation.

When the fragrance talisman burned away and her memories returned, pursuers from the heavenly way and the Asuras arrived as well...

He stood before her, incense in hand. Behind him lay the warmth of mortal life; before him surged the flood of fate: