Hua Cheng leaves Qi Rong’s cave so that Xie Lian, Shi QingXuan and Feng Xin can report back to heaven. Jun Wu tells Xie Lian that he sent a spy to the ghost realm because Hua Cheng has a spy in heaven. Xie Lian decides to visit his parent’s coffins to pay his respects, but is ambushed by Qi Rong who was waiting for him and had desecrated his mother’s body. Xie Lian is anguished, beating up Qi Rong, and he raises his sword about to strike it down. We leave that cliffhanger to enter Book 2, which is set in the past. Xie Lian is 17, performing in a parade, when he saves a bandaged child that fell from a tower. Mu Qing and Feng Xin, also 17, are his personal attendant and bodyguard. Mu Qing believes that Feng Xin is accusing him of stealing a missing red pearl earring, so has run away, leaving Xie Lian and Feng Xin running after him.
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