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The King of the Demon Realm, the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox, saw his entire clan annihilated in a single night. Three months later, Yue Xichen, the Sect Leader of Lingyun Mountain, took in a white-haired youth as his last closed-door disciple.
Everyone whispered that this disciple was Yue Xichen’s illegitimate son from the outside world. However, A-Yin himself felt as though his Master harbored a personal grudge against him. His Master refused to share cultivation resources, forced him to eat Peach Blossom Cakes to suppress his cultivation, gave him a stone sword that could not be unsheathed, publicly whipped him with a discipline lash until his flesh was torn open, and punished him by making him kneel in reflection atop a frozen mountain peak…
That was, until the day A-Yin grew a pair of fluffy beast ears.
It turned out that he was a half-demon. Without the regular consumption of Shape-Shifting Pills, his demonic identity would be exposed, leading to his expulsion from the immortal sect. It turned out that the stone sword he had despised was actually one of his Master’s two personal divine weapons. And it turned out that the masked figure who guided his cultivation every night was none other than his Master himself.
Few people know that the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox has a unique coming-of-age ritual: when they find their true love, they transform into a full-grown adult overnight. One thunderous, rainy night, Yue Xichen fell into a deep sleep leaning against A-Yin’s shoulder. Upon waking, he discovered that the person embracing him was actually a beautiful, silver-haired young man.
A-Yin fell in love with his Master, but his Master did not love him in return. Not only did he not love him, but he was also the true culprit who had slaughtered the Nine-Tailed clan. On the day A-Yin heard Yue Xichen declare before the gathered immortal sects, “It was I who personally killed the Nine-Tailed Demon King,” A-Yin went mad.
With one claw, he tore out Yue Xichen’s spiritual root. Yue Xichen’s true qi dissipated instantly, and he tumbled down the Myriad Spirit Stairs, his blood staining every stone step crimson. A-Yin even gouged out Yue Xichen’s eyes and sealed him away with one hundred and eight Soul-Consuming Nails.
…However, when A-Yin was eventually cornered at the Blood Demon Abyss by the united immortal sects, the one who stepped forward to die in his place was this very Master Yue Xichen whom he had tortured beyond recognition.
At the moment Yue Xichen’s soul shattered and dispersed, A-Yin’s lost memories finally returned.
