"Do you know the difference between ordinary people and celestials?"
"I don't."
"The difference is that when ordinary people die, their bodies turn to bones and their souls enter the underworld to await their next reincarnation. When celestials die, they do not reincarnate. They become stars and endure forever."
"Xuanxuan, do you know where people go after they die?"
"To the grave." The little girl was still too young to understand, knowing nothing yet of time's cruelty or life's unpredictability.
"Some people do, but not everyone. When ordinary people die, their bodies decay and their souls enter the cycle of reincarnation. Celestials, however, do not reincarnate when they die. They become stars and endure forever."
"What does it mean to endure forever?"
"That is a very distant matter!" A sigh sounded beside her...
Born a goddess, Shangguan Xuan was blessed with immense fortune and a life as long as the heavens. All the hardships of the world meant little to her. Gazing at the golden ashes before her, she felt there was nothing left in heaven or earth worth holding on to. Bewildered, she wondered: Was sacrificing Shen Yunmo to save all living beings in the six realms... worth it?
Across heaven and earth, through countless millennia, amid the calamity that would destroy the world, our blood intertwined. We pledged our lives to one another, finding joy in each other's company. Even death could not part us. As the war songs ring out, the bloodline of the ancient gods awakens, and the God of War of the Nine Heavens returns in triumph!
