For three hundred years, Owen Talbot has guarded the Warded Spire of the Nightfall Sect under his master’s final command. Day after day, he nourishes the seals with his own blood essence, sacrificing his cultivation until he falls from the peak of the Nascent Soul realm to the Qi Refining realm.
When the three-hundred-year term ends, his junior sister Emily Rowan takes over as sect leader. But after listening to the slander of Nolan Price, she becomes convinced that Owen fabricated the demon crisis and secretly pocketed the sect’s resources. She publicly accuses him of seeking fame and orders him to leave the sect within three days.
His attempts to explain himself fall on deaf ears. Heartbroken, Owen withdraws the blood essence and cultivation he sacrificed to maintain the seals, restoring himself to the peak of the Golden Core realm. He breaks the seals and walks away without looking back.
Then the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox Serenity Vale emerges from the Warded Spire and chooses Owen as her master, clinging to him and calling him “husband” as she follows him wherever he goes.
One by one, the other great demons trapped inside the Warded Spire awaken and emerge in human form, plunging the Nightfall Sect into a catastrophe. Emily leads the sect in forming an array to suppress them, only to be gravely wounded in a single blow.
Only then does she realize that every word Owen said was true.
But Owen is already long gone with Serenity, setting out to fulfill another final command left be
