The Nine Heavens Palace

Her spiritual root was deemed inadequate, and the sect ignored her. Her master poisoned her, her fellow disciples wanted her dead, and two factions joined forces to hunt her down. All she had were two cracked jade pendants and the remnant soul of someone who had slept for three thousand years.

The remnant soul told her, “Girl, you’re no good-for-nothing. You have a heavenly spiritual root, one unseen in ten thousand ages. Only powerful beings beyond the peak can recognize it.”

So she stole cultivation manuals, broke into forbidden grounds, and sent a Soul Formation elder flying with a single palm strike. She went from being hunted to hunting others, from standing alone to gathering Tie Niu, Liu Ruyan, and then Ling Feng, the sword cultivator. “Your sword is too cold,” he told her. “It needs a little warmth.” Yet after his family was wiped out, he said, “It’s not that I don’t love you. I’m afraid I’ll drag you down,” then turned and left.

She thought revenge would be the end of it. But when she finally stood before her enemy, she discovered an even greater hand pulling the strings behind the scenes. When she finally uncovered the truth about her father, Uncle Yun blew up his Nascent Soul to protect her. And when she finally had someone by her side, Ling Feng was gone.

She said, “I don’t want anything. I just want a home.”

This is a story of turning the tables, but also one of protection and loneliness. The shackles of the mortal world bind me, yet I will shatter them and ascend to immortality. She chose to defy fate and change her destiny, all to protect that little warmth in her heart.