North of Mt. Tianheng.
A white-haired woman with multicolored eyes walked at the foot of the mountain.
Red Ropes bound her body. Her face was expressionless, her gaze indifferent, and an ethereal air surrounded her, as though she were an adeptus stripped of all worldly emotions and desires.
Her arrival drew plenty of attention and discussion, but she paid it no mind, simply walking silently along the foot of the mountain.
Her name was Shenhe, and she was a disciple of the adepti.
But unlike the protagonists in stories who joined an Immortal Sect, the circumstances that had brought her there were far from pleasant.
She came from a branch of an Exorcist Family in Liyue, and both her parents were Exorcists.
Her family had once been reasonably happy, but everything changed after her mother fell gravely ill and died of an incurable disease.
Overwhelmed by longing for his wife, her father eventually succumbed to his inner demons. He abandoned Shenhe, who was only five, and wandered the world.
Several years later, her father finally returned, bringing with him a supposed secret technique called [Life-for-Life]. He claimed that sacrificing a living person to a summoned Seelie could resurrect the dead.
At the time, her father told her that he had prepared a wonderful surprise for her in a cave on the mountain.
She had thought little of it, immersed in the immense joy of seeing her father return after so many years.
But when she entered the cave, she discovered that the supposed surprise was a black "Seelie."
Looking at the hideous "Seelie" and the sinister aura it gave off, she realized that it wanted to eat her.
Frightened, she begged her father for help, only to receive a cold reply.
[You bear the Solitary Star and Calamity fate. Keeping