Qingqiu, Qingsong Academy
"In the primordial era of desolation, during the war between gods and demons, Emperor Donghua led seventy-two divine generals, including Menghao, to battle the Demon Tribe. Stopping killings with killing, ending wars with war. He finally brought peace to the realm, assumed the position of Master of Heaven and Earth, and held the power over the life and death of the six realms. Hundreds of thousands of years later, Demon Lord Miaoluo emerged into the world, refusing to submit to Donghua's supreme rule. Willing to destroy heaven and earth, she fought a decisive battle against him. Emperor Donghua used the Canghe Sword to wound the Demon Lord, and then sealed her away using the Soul-Locking Jade and his own cultivation." —— History of the Primeval Era
While the tutor was lecturing on the history of the primordial era up on the platform, a little fan in the audience was listening with rapt attention. As she imagined the scene of Donghua fighting Miaoluo, she unconsciously began to draw it, until...
"I draw so well!" Feng Jiu stood up excitedly, her words interrupting the tutor mid-lesson.
The tutor sighed helplessly. "Your Highness Feng Jiu, you really... Oh, aside from doing reasonably well in the Primordial Deities examination, do you really intend to remain uneducated and just coast through?"
Embarrassed, Feng Jiu said, "That's because the tutor's lecture on the history of the primordial era in the last class was so wonderful that I got completely absorbed and didn't notice that this period is... Buddhist philosophy class!"
*Buddhist philosophy is so difficult, and so boring...* Feng Jiu thought to herself.
Helpless, the tutor had no choice but to punish Feng Jiu by making her copy the day's lecture content ten times, then told her to sit down and resumed the lesson...
Yet the Little Princess truly could not bring herself to listen. As the lecture dragged on, Feng Jiu sat there falling asleep, her head nodding until she jolted herself awake again. Seeing this, the tutor could only sigh and shake his head...
Suddenly, Feng Jiu remembered hearing from a Jingwei bird that a magical artifact had recently appeared in Mount Qinyao. That sounded far more interesting than a Buddhist philosophy class. The more she thought about it, the more restless she became, and she decided to sneak away to Mount Qinyao to hunt for treasure.
If Feng Jiu's feelings for Emperor Donghua at this moment were mostly reverence and admiration, it would not be long before they turned into adoration and love.
Mount Qinyao
At this moment, Feng Jiu was still rejoicing over successfully slipping away from the tutor's class, completely unaware of the danger closing in around her... Meanwhile, the tutor turned around to find Feng Jiu gone.
*The tutor:* ??!
Furious, the tutor ordered someone to go look for the Little Princess while preparing to go complain to God Bai Yi after class...
Feng Jiu was happily running through the valley of Mount Qinyao when suddenly, a gust of black wind swept her up and carried her away. Feng Jiu struggled desperately to no avail, and the black wind finally dumped her onto a charred, burnt mountain...
After a bout of dizziness, Feng Jiu wobbled to her feet and looked around... The ground was completely scorched, with magma occasionally flowing through the cracks. The surrounding trees were also pitch-black, devoid of leaves or fruit. Feng Jiu was deeply puzzled. Where was this? Although she was only thirty thousand years old and not very old, she had already snuck off to play in quite a few places. Yet, she had never been here before...
Unsure of the situation, Feng Jiu wandered around until she saw a few soldiers guarding a cave entrance. Feng Jiu thought to herself: *Could the treasure I'm looking for be right in here?*
She drew the soldiers away and crept toward the cave, only to have her forehead crash suddenly into a barrier that bounced her back.
On the other side, Emperor Donghua sensed a disturbance in the Miaoyi Abyss and was currently rushing toward the Demon Tribe Forbidden Land. Here, the soldiers realized something was wrong and immediately reported it to the Red Demon Lord. The Red Demon Lord's mount, a White Tiger, arrived at the forbidden land a step ahead of the Red Demon Lord and was currently hunting the trespasser who had broken in.
Little Highness Feng Jiu was chased in all directions by that White Tiger. With no other choice, since she couldn't beat it, she could only run. But unexpectedly, in her panicked flight, Feng Jiu was tripped by a vine, while the White Tiger closed in step by step behind her. Just as Feng Jiu was about to fall into the tiger's jaws, a figure in purple with silver hair descended from the sky, flicking his wrist to send out the Canghe Sword and beat back the White Tiger.