Mystic Legacy

Fifteen years ago, the Gatekeeper found a baby in the snow and raised him by the saltworks' stove. There is a well in the child's heart. When hungry, it swallows people; when full, it threatens to bring down the heavens. The Underworld Gate wants him as a furnace vessel. The military garrison wants to trade him for a reward. A Daoist sword immortal is ordered to eliminate the demon, but stops three paces away and grips her sword: “If you come closer, you'll hurt people.” After saying this, she steps back three paces. She spends half her life retreating that one step. From fighting his way out of the saltworks to taking on the Eight Sects, from “You're not of this world” to a single word: “Alive.” The ones who guard the well, fill it, keep the books, and sharpen their blades: in the end, this whole family becomes a group ready to overturn the table. “We only want to live. Who does that hurt?”