Demon Lord, Is This All You've Got?

Chi Fengxue is a disciple of Qingming Mountain, the chief orthodox Daoist sect, known for her exceptionally poor talent in cultivation. While her senior martial brother Shen Yujing is a peerless genius who mastered thunder talismans in a hundred days, Fengxue cannot successfully draw a single talisman. Despite this, she insists on cultivating alongside him due to an arranged childhood engagement and her deep affection for him. On the mountain, she is ridiculed as a burden who only earned her place as a personal disciple of the reclusive Master Lingyun by riding on Shen Yujing’s coattails. Her only solace is a pair of sparrows she befriends with basic beast-taming arts. Her fate changes during a demon-slaying mission in a ghost-ridden town, where a breach opens into the Myriad Demon Den. As her comrades fall, Fengxue uses her superior mortal swordsmanship to fight through the horde. When Shen Yujing is critically injured and falls into the abyss, she drags his unconscious body out of the demon den, sustaining fatal wounds herself before tumbling off a cliff. She survives, but upon returning, she learns that Feng Fuliu, a talented junior sister, claimed to have saved Shen Yujing. When Fengxue tries to reveal the truth, no one believes her, and she is branded a liar seeking credit. Heartbroken and disillusioned, she eventually leaves the mountain, only to be hunted and killed by cultivators after she begins to turn into a demon due to demonic qi contamination. She dies pinned beneath a demon corpse, watching Shen Yujing and Feng Fuliu stand together in the sky, before waking up a hundred years earlier, back in her youth on Qingming Mountain.

Reborn, Fengxue retains the memories of her tragic past. When Shen Yujing wakes and claims he does not remember who saved him, she no longer reacts with the desperate indignation of her previous life. Instead, she coolly accepts his words and publicly proposes to end their engagement, stating that their bond was a shackle that hindered her cultivation. Master Lingyun appears and declares that Fengxue was accepted as his disciple for her own merit, silencing her detractors. Fengxue then encounters Feng Fuliu, who offers her a sword named Fuwei and feigns innocence. Fengxue, no longer blinded by love, sees through the deception. She accepts the sword but rejects Feng Fuliu’s pity, declaring that she will walk her own path and wishing them a happy future together. She leaves the mountain, riding the wind with a newfound sense of freedom, though she is aware that the demonic qi in her body will eventually consume her.

Descending to the mortal world, Fengxue arrives at Jingquan, a city famous for its wine. She witnesses a heretical cultivator using beast-making arts to turn children into human-faced dogs for entertainment. Using her Heaven’s Eye, she discovers the trapped vengeful spirits within the dog’s hide. She tracks the cultivator to a courtyard where she encounters a group of youths: Ye Pengzhou, Lu Yuan, Ye Xingyue, and Jiang Yao. Unaware of their future identities as terrifying demon lords, she intervenes. Ye Pengzhou reveals they captured the cultivator and had turned him into a dog as retribution. Fengxue skins the human-faced dog to release the trapped souls, performing a deliverance chant for the victims. The gruesome act shocks the young villains, particularly Ah Yao, who had been mocking her. Despite the blood on her robes, Fengxue treats the group with kindness, offering them travel talismans and inviting them to eat. The villagers of Jingquan, grateful for her rescue of their missing children, offer her gifts, which she accepts with humility. The encounter marks the beginning of her journey in the mortal world, where she will face the consequences of her demonic transformation while forging unexpected connections with those who will one day rule the Ghost Realm.