There once exists a little clam princess, Sangjiu, along a river under heaven's domain, she was the sweet heart of the clam clan, lived a happy and carefree life. During the day, she would go up to the river bank to bathe in the sun and indulge in her little secret - she would take a peek at a patrolling Dragon Deity, young lord Mingye. Mingye was one of heaven's favorite, his and her status were like heaven and earth but she was content just looking up at him from the river bed.
One day she noticed two unconcious figures by the river bed, she went to investigate and found out it was Mingye and Tian Huan, a saintess of Tian immortal clan of the heavens. In panic she took them to Clam clan's treasure room to heal them but Mingye by accident absorbed and fused with Clam clan's divine treasure that kept the river clean and prevented it from flooding. In desperation, she used her own spirit marrow, the lifeblood of cultivators, to stabalise Mingye at the cost of her ability to cultivate and become more powerful.
When Clam clan's leader, her father found out, he was furious and wanted to kill Mingye to take back the treasure but Sangjiu begged her father to let him live. He agreed on one condition - Mingye must marry her and protect the Clam clan personally. When Mingye woke up and found out what happened he agreed reluctantly, he misunderstood and thought that the Clam princess took advantage and asked her father to force a marriage.
A month later, the wedding date arrived, although the events were beyond her control, the Clam princess anxiously looked forward to it. However, Mingye only sent one lowly palace Eunach to escort her. Sangjiu was disappointed but she hoped to explain the misunderstanding and went with a smile despite her family dissuading her. But when she arrived, Mingye confined her in a little shabby courtyard and refused to see her for years.
Years later, it was once again time to clean the river and stabalise the water to prevent flood. As part of the agreement Mingye has to lend the clam princess his family's divine treasure to cleanse the river. When she went to see him to ask for the treasure, he refused. He contested that he needed the treasure to heal Tian Huan, the saintess from back then and his potential finance, who was still injured.
In desperation, the clam princess used the last bit of her power to restrain him and took the treasure. Mingye was furious and told her never to come and see him again.
Later on, Mingye once again went to war against the demons while Sangjiu continued to live her life in the little yard hoping one day Mingye would understand her. One day, she received the news that Mingye has fallen in battle.
She went out and looked for him everywhere by herself and at last, she found him at the bottom of a lake filled with Slow Water. Slow Water feeds on beings with cultivation and is extremely corrosive. Not being able to think of any other way to bring him up, she jumped into the lake.
She transformed into a clam and used her shell as protective shield but the water was extremely corrosive and her shell started to dissolve. For the clam people, it is said that injury to their shell hurts a hundred times more than humans having their bones crushed yet she braced the pain and brought him out of the lake.
She then took him to a little hut to nurse him back but it turned out Mingye was severely injured and lost all his five senses, he was no better than a corpse. For the next 5 years, she persisted in nursing him back little by little and Mingye woke up and started to recover. Although Mingye couldn't hear or see who was helping him, he could feel the loving gaze in his direction.
One day when she came back from picking herbs. Mingye was gone. She could sense the Aura of heavenly personnels in her yard and could tell Mingye has been found and taken back to his domain. Consigned to her fate, she decided to go back to her Clam family's river, at least happy that she has gotten the chance to spend time with the love of her life.
She made the journey back to the river palace where her family resides but in a curel twist of fate and to her utter horror, she only find the scattered remains of her family and clans man. Corpses of her brothers and sisters lied on the floor and her father the king sat dead at the foot of the throne, their shattered clam shells littering the hall. Turned out, Tian Huan, the saintess of the heaven accused the clam clan of collaborating with the demons and ordered them to be executed.
The clam princess was in agony - she remained the only survivor of the clam clan, she was also powerless as she sacrificed her spirit marrow in order to save Mingye previously. Amidst heart wrenching pain, her spirit turned black and she flew towards heaven in a demonic rage to massacre the Tian family. Consumed by her rage, she continued to massacre immortals over the next few years and became an infamous witch.
Mingye was tasked with an order to hunt her down during that time but he instead shut himself off in seclusion. A few years later a divine light shone where Mingye was cutivating, all the immortals clans rejoiced as they thought it was a sign Mingye was about to attain godhood.
Mingye tracked down the clam princess and the two finally met after years but the princess was a broken figure, her eyes were lifeless, her mind was gone. Looking at her, Mingye understood that she is at the end of her life - thunders were forming in the sky, her karmic debt had became too much for the heavens to tolerate, she was to be struck down at any moment.
Mingye flew towards her but instead of striking her down, he held her in his arms. He explained that back then in the hut he eventually recovered his senses and realized who had been looking after him. But one day Tian Huan came and asked him to go back as the war against demons was still ongoing. He left a letter behind asking the clam princess to wait for him but when he came back, she was gone. (Tian Huan burned that letter behind his back).
Mingye regretted that the realization came too late and that he couldn't stop the clam clan from being massacred in time and stop her from turning into a demon.
But he wanted to repay her in this life - in the past few years he shut himself off in order to condense his power. Sacrificing his chance at god hood, he planned to transfer his primordial spiritual source to her and her sins to himself instead. He wanted her to live on as carefree and happy as before while he bears the retribution of her karma.
Tragically, it was too late, her spiritual marrow has long been sacrificed to save him and her karmic debt has long taken a heavy toll on her soul. Right there in his arms her body turned to dust and her spirit scattered, never to reincarnate again.
Broken and with no chances to make amends, Mingye's Dao heart shattered right then. He picked up the remaining pieces of the little clam princess' shells and thereafter wandered the world mindlessly.
I don’t think she will ever forget when every single of her family died in front of her😅😅
I laughed when ppl criticized her for being back and forth with her feelings.
Like wtf of c she wants to kill the person who murdered her whole family but thn she gets reminded she cant YET and even has to protect him. And then her moral upbringing had her feel conflicted about killing who is only a potential criminal.
I can understand that FL feels conflicted but why the hell are you torturing someone who HASN’T committed the…
She contradicts herself cos she felt conflicted, her heart wants to strangle him to death, her moral conducts says its wrong while her logical reasoning says she can't kill him yet. She watched her family get murdered by the same person in front of her eyes and its only been a few days since.
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https://youtu.be/H7pUAZfuA70?t=61
They changed it a bit, in the novel the clam princess didn't say anything before dying.
One day she noticed two unconcious figures by the river bed, she went to investigate and found out it was Mingye and Tian Huan, a saintess of Tian immortal clan of the heavens. In panic she took them to Clam clan's treasure room to heal them but Mingye by accident absorbed and fused with Clam clan's divine treasure that kept the river clean and prevented it from flooding. In desperation, she used her own spirit marrow, the lifeblood of cultivators, to stabalise Mingye at the cost of her ability to cultivate and become more powerful.
When Clam clan's leader, her father found out, he was furious and wanted to kill Mingye to take back the treasure but Sangjiu begged her father to let him live. He agreed on one condition - Mingye must marry her and protect the Clam clan personally. When Mingye woke up and found out what happened he agreed reluctantly, he misunderstood and thought that the Clam princess took advantage and asked her father to force a marriage.
A month later, the wedding date arrived, although the events were beyond her control, the Clam princess anxiously looked forward to it. However, Mingye only sent one lowly palace Eunach to escort her. Sangjiu was disappointed but she hoped to explain the misunderstanding and went with a smile despite her family dissuading her. But when she arrived, Mingye confined her in a little shabby courtyard and refused to see her for years.
Years later, it was once again time to clean the river and stabalise the water to prevent flood. As part of the agreement Mingye has to lend the clam princess his family's divine treasure to cleanse the river. When she went to see him to ask for the treasure, he refused. He contested that he needed the treasure to heal Tian Huan, the saintess from back then and his potential finance, who was still injured.
In desperation, the clam princess used the last bit of her power to restrain him and took the treasure. Mingye was furious and told her never to come and see him again.
Later on, Mingye once again went to war against the demons while Sangjiu continued to live her life in the little yard hoping one day Mingye would understand her. One day, she received the news that Mingye has fallen in battle.
She went out and looked for him everywhere by herself and at last, she found him at the bottom of a lake filled with Slow Water. Slow Water feeds on beings with cultivation and is extremely corrosive. Not being able to think of any other way to bring him up, she jumped into the lake.
She transformed into a clam and used her shell as protective shield but the water was extremely corrosive and her shell started to dissolve. For the clam people, it is said that injury to their shell hurts a hundred times more than humans having their bones crushed yet she braced the pain and brought him out of the lake.
She then took him to a little hut to nurse him back but it turned out Mingye was severely injured and lost all his five senses, he was no better than a corpse. For the next 5 years, she persisted in nursing him back little by little and Mingye woke up and started to recover. Although Mingye couldn't hear or see who was helping him, he could feel the loving gaze in his direction.
One day when she came back from picking herbs. Mingye was gone. She could sense the Aura of heavenly personnels in her yard and could tell Mingye has been found and taken back to his domain. Consigned to her fate, she decided to go back to her Clam family's river, at least happy that she has gotten the chance to spend time with the love of her life.
She made the journey back to the river palace where her family resides but in a curel twist of fate and to her utter horror, she only find the scattered remains of her family and clans man. Corpses of her brothers and sisters lied on the floor and her father the king sat dead at the foot of the throne, their shattered clam shells littering the hall. Turned out, Tian Huan, the saintess of the heaven accused the clam clan of collaborating with the demons and ordered them to be executed.
The clam princess was in agony - she remained the only survivor of the clam clan, she was also powerless as she sacrificed her spirit marrow in order to save Mingye previously. Amidst heart wrenching pain, her spirit turned black and she flew towards heaven in a demonic rage to massacre the Tian family. Consumed by her rage, she continued to massacre immortals over the next few years and became an infamous witch.
Mingye was tasked with an order to hunt her down during that time but he instead shut himself off in seclusion. A few years later a divine light shone where Mingye was cutivating, all the immortals clans rejoiced as they thought it was a sign Mingye was about to attain godhood.
Mingye tracked down the clam princess and the two finally met after years but the princess was a broken figure, her eyes were lifeless, her mind was gone. Looking at her, Mingye understood that she is at the end of her life - thunders were forming in the sky, her karmic debt had became too much for the heavens to tolerate, she was to be struck down at any moment.
Mingye flew towards her but instead of striking her down, he held her in his arms. He explained that back then in the hut he eventually recovered his senses and realized who had been looking after him. But one day Tian Huan came and asked him to go back as the war against demons was still ongoing. He left a letter behind asking the clam princess to wait for him but when he came back, she was gone. (Tian Huan burned that letter behind his back).
Mingye regretted that the realization came too late and that he couldn't stop the clam clan from being massacred in time and stop her from turning into a demon.
But he wanted to repay her in this life - in the past few years he shut himself off in order to condense his power. Sacrificing his chance at god hood, he planned to transfer his primordial spiritual source to her and her sins to himself instead. He wanted her to live on as carefree and happy as before while he bears the retribution of her karma.
Tragically, it was too late, her spiritual marrow has long been sacrificed to save him and her karmic debt has long taken a heavy toll on her soul. Right there in his arms her body turned to dust and her spirit scattered, never to reincarnate again.
Broken and with no chances to make amends, Mingye's Dao heart shattered right then. He picked up the remaining pieces of the little clam princess' shells and thereafter wandered the world mindlessly.
Like wtf of c she wants to kill the person who murdered her whole family but thn she gets reminded she cant YET and even has to protect him. And then her moral upbringing had her feel conflicted about killing who is only a potential criminal.
Yeah my name means warrior in Indian, i loved that word the moment i heard it
Martial artists and cultivators not coughing blood when injured is like being a vampire that isn't afraid of sunlight in Western fantasy.