Cheng Hui was an ordinary college student who died in a car accident after saving children, only to transmigrate into a ruthless cultivation world. His new identity was that of a member of the Cheng family, a minor cultivation clan in a remote city. Upon opening his eyes, he found himself being stabbed by a beautiful woman who was part of a demonic sect massacre. The sect was refining a Yin Array and needed hearts; Cheng Hui’s heart was dug out while he lay dying. As a corpse, he retained consciousness and overheard the villains’ conspiracy before being abandoned in the ruins.
Instead of passing on, Cheng Hui entered a cycle of bizarre reincarnations. He transformed into a rooster, a hen, a fox, and various other animals, each time dying quickly and painfully. Throughout these lives, a beautiful woman in red robes appeared after each death, weeping over his corpse. Cheng Hui assumed she was a grieving lover unable to let go, and he felt pity for her obsession. After numerous deaths, including one as a mouse crushed by a cat, he finally faded into darkness, hoping the woman would move on.
Cheng Hui unexpectedly returned to his original corpse in the ruins. There, he encountered a pale, blue-faced child named Lin Qingyang, who had survived the massacre by hiding in a secret chamber. Lin Qingyang clung to Cheng Hui’s body, calling him "Huihui" and declaring him his fiancé. A blue-robed Daoist named Wu Youzi, an elder of the Corpse Puppet Sect, arrived and recognized the child’s rare Blood Fiend Body. Wu Youzi offered to take Lin Qingyang as a disciple, but the child refused to leave Cheng Hui’s side. Wu Youzi, noting that the Corpse Puppet Sect’s conservative faction cultivates life-bound corpses with deep emotional bonds, agreed to let Lin Qingyang refine Cheng Hui’s body as his life-bound corpse.
Lin Qingyang, however, was not merely a child. He was actually a twenty-five-year-old cultivator from the Blood Slaughter Sect who had been sold into slavery at age ten. After fifteen years of suffering, he had risen to become a formal disciple. His return to this body was a result of using a forbidden Reincarnation Stone to save Cheng Hui, whom he loved deeply in his past life. Lin Qingyang had orchestrated the events to ensure Cheng Hui would not die alone and to secure their eternal bond. He split his own heart, placing the larger portion into Cheng Hui’s chest to repair his body, while keeping the smaller half as a blood crystal token.
At the Corpse Puppet Sect, Lin Qingyang began cultivating the Corpse Life Profound Luo Skill with Cheng Hui. Their dual cultivation produced extraordinary results, attracting massive amounts of yin energy and drawing the attention of sect elders. Cheng Hui, now a walking corpse with full intelligence, adapted quickly to the cultivation world. He discovered he had a unique aptitude for divine sense and began gathering information about the sect’s internal politics. The Corpse Puppet Sect was divided between the conservative Mysterious Corpse Faction, which valued emotional bonds with their corpses, and the radical Puppet Faction, which sought to refine corpses purely for power. The Puppet Faction harbored dangerous ambitions to dominate the realm, creating underlying tension.
Cheng Hui remained unaware of Lin Qingyang’s true identity and past. He viewed the child as a devoted but somewhat obsessive fiancé. Cheng Hui resolved to guide Lin Qingyang toward a righteous path, believing the child’s intense attachment stemmed from trauma. Meanwhile, Lin Qingyang concealed his true nature, acting the part of a devoted young husband while secretly planning to protect Cheng Hui from all harm. The story follows their life at the sect, with Cheng Hui cultivating diligently to regain his strength and speech, while navigating the complex and often dangerous world of cultivation.
