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    Before Jun Wu consolidated his heaven, there were two gods older than the current order.

    The God of Life and the God of Death held the balance of the three realms between them for millennia — until the day Jun Wu decided that gods who could not be killed were still gods who could be contained. The array he built was the finest work of his long and careful cruelty. It held.

    It held for a very long time.

    When Xie Lian falls through a cave floor on the day of his third ascension, he is not expecting to break a seal that has kept two ancient gods in stasis for centuries. He is also not expecting the two young cultivators he has known and traveled with for hundreds of years to look directly at the men they spent those centuries searching for and feel absolutely nothing.

    Some things, it turns out, were lost long before the seal broke.

    (A story about devotion that outlasts memory, love that cannot touch, and the specific cruelty of finding what you were looking for only to discover that the finding came too late — with a happy ending, eventually, because they have all survived worse than this.)

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