Driven to Death by a Cultivator's Mistress? I'll Raise My Sword to the Nine Heavens

Li Fu was a mortal woman married to Chen Xiao for three years. She managed his household and was filial to his parents, never wronging him. But Chen Xiao disappeared for a month and returned with a concubine, Hua Yue, a cultivator. When Li Fu's mother reprimanded Chen Xiao, Hua Yue used immortal methods to take her life. She then framed the Li family for corruption, forced Li Fu's kin to disown her, and killed anyone who tried to help—sixty-five people in total, including Li Fu's closest friend. Li Fu herself was skinned alive and had her bones removed, dying a gruesome death. Her soul sank into the Wangchuan, the river of vengeful spirits, where her resentment festered.

Refusing to let go of her past, Li Fu stubbornly climbed out of the Wangchuan. A mysterious man on the shore told her that her fate had been stolen by Hua Yue, a cultivator, and that in the mortal realm there was no justice against immortals. He sent her up the Cloud Ladder to the Nine Heavens, where cultivators presided over all realms. After an arduous climb that took decades, Li Fu finally reached the Nine Heavens Palace, where a grand feast was underway. She knelt before the elders and recounted every detail of her suffering, begging for justice.

But the elders were indifferent. The Fourth Elder, Hua Yue's master, sneered that mortals were trivial and that his disciple must have had a reason. Just then, the Great Elder announced that Hua Yue and Chen Xiao were the Chosen Ones predicted in an ancient prophecy, destined to save the cultivation world from the world‑ending tribulation. The elders immediately dismissed Li Fu’s grievance as a minor matter. Hua Yue waved her hand and flung Li Fu away, mocking her. The Great Elder declared everything settled: Li Fu’s climb earned her a wish, but her slander of the Chosen Ones canceled it out. She was cast out of the Nine Heavens.

Li Fu returned to the Wangchuan, despairing. There was no justice in the cultivation world. With the help of the mysterious man, she understood that the only way to obtain justice was to gain power. She sank into the Wangchuan and merged with its boundless resentment, becoming the Lord of Ghost Fiends. Instantly, the prophecy tablet in the Nine Heavens cracked, black qi coiled around it, and the world‑ending tribulation arrived. The elders panicked. Mahayana Venerables appeared and declared that the nascent Lord of Ghost Fiends must be killed early. They gave Hua Yue and Chen Xiao the red and blue Slaying Swords, forged over ten thousand years, to destroy the Lord of Ghost Fiends. The Venerables then vanished, leaving the cultivation world to face the tribulation.

Li Fu stood at the center of the churning Wangchuan, her scarlet eyes fixed on the Nine Heavens. She would give herself the justice she had been denied: she would make the Nine Heavens fall and erase the distinction between immortals and mortals. The cultivation world, now armed with the Chosen Ones and the destiny swords, prepared to hunt her down. But Li Fu had only begun her cultivation, and the conflict between her vengeful power and the immortals’ order was set to unfold. The story reaches this confrontation, with Li Fu’s transformation as the catalyst for the world‑ending tribulation and her ultimate goal of tearing down the unjust hierarchy of the Nine Heavens.