"Blood in the Snow, Flames in the Sect"
The snow had not yet melted over the crack of earth where Yun Wangshu's broken body had been buried. When her eyes opened once more, they did not carry the fragile warmth of the girl she had been—but the abyssal chill of someone who had touched death.
Her chest still bore the scar where her heart had been stolen, but a new pulse beat within: not the Heart of Crystal of the Silent Court, but something darker, colder. A whisper from the Void—gifted by the man who called himself Heir of the Forbidden Lineage.
"You belong to me now," he had said when he raised her from death. "Your vengeance will be my flame. And when it burns, the world will tremble."
Three nights later, the Haze Sect awoke to horror.
From the frozen cliffs, she descended in robes black as storm-torn skies. Guards who tried to resist found their cores shattered by a single flick of her hand. Disciples who begged for mercy found only silence in her eyes.
The inner halls burned with blue fire as she carved her way to the Sect's heart. Elder after elder fell, their blood staining the carved jade floors. The sect's ancestral vaults—where cultivation treasures and forbidden manuals had been kept for centuries—collapsed into flames, consumed by the power that dripped from her Void-forged veins.
Yet in the chaos, one figure escaped: the City Lord, whose decree had once branded her a demon cultivator. His golden core cracked under her strike, but he fled through a secret gate, cursing her name, swearing that the Haze Sect would rise again.
By dawn, the Haze Sect was no more than smoke and ruin. To the world, it seemed annihilated. To her, it was only the first drop of blood in a sea of vengeance.
As she stood among the ashes, she touched her scar and whispered, "Wenxue, I have avenged you… not fully, not yet."
Behind her, unseen, the MC watched. His shadow stretched long across the snow, silent and patient. Every step of her fury bound her tighter to him. She believed she fought for herself—but her vengeance now served the will of the Void.