Swords of Legends · Conversa

By the waterside of Yaoshan Mountain, Prince Changqin sat on a stone holding the Fenglai Qin, with a foot-long water snake lying dormant at his feet. As he played the zither, the water snake tilted its head to listen. He said, "On the day you transform into a dragon, I will sit beside your dragon horn and watch over all the mountains and rivers." The water snake sank to the bottom of the stream and never came up again. A thousand years later, Prince Changqin was ordered by the heavens to go to Mount Buzhou to capture a black dragon. It was only when the Pillar of Heaven collapsed that he recognized the black dragon was none other than that year's water snake. Fuxi passed down punishment, stripping Prince Changqin of his immortal status forever, depriving him of familial and romantic ties, and cursing every cycle of reincarnation to a lonely fate. On his way to reincarnation, he passed by Yaoshan Mountain and paused for a moment. Because of this very pause, Jiao Li of the Longyuan tribe used the blood-smearing formation to seize his destined soul and four secondary souls, forging them into a crimson fierce sword. On the day the sword was completed, the furnace fires burned unabated for three days, and it was named Fuxi. Nuwa arrived a step too late, sealing the Fuxi Sword into the Ice-Flame Cave of Umeng Spirit Valley and ordering a clan from the southern borders to guard it from generation to generation. The contemporary Grand Wizard Han Xiuning stood before the altar holding her newborn son, listening as Goddess Nuwa's decree fell with the evening breeze—until the millennium-long seal was nearly up, and the murderous Qi within the sword stirred faintly. She looked down at Han Yunxi in her arms; the child was sleeping soundly, his little fist clutching her lapel. She said nothing, only holding him a little tighter. In the distance, the maples of Red Leaf Lake were as red as raging fire, falling one by one into the water and drifting out of the valley along the stream.