ep 1 spoilers ahead

1.Our story begins with a falling star. It lands over a hut in the woods where a woman has just given birth to a baby girl. The moment the child is born, a peculiar scent drifts out from the woods, and in the distance an old Taoist monk appears. The woman dies, and the girls' father is in tears...

2.The monk approaches him and gives the infant a bracelet. For 16 years it will protect her. It will reduce the chances of demons being lured by her scent. Strangely, her blood kills any plant/flower it touches...The monk tells her father to send the girl to Zu Mountain to apprentice when she turns 16 because she was born under a calamity star and has an ill fate. Her father asks the monk to name her, and he names her Hua Qin Gu (Bones)

3.Years pass. The girl grows up and is treated like a demon by the villagers because she attracts monsters. Then one night her father falls ill. She rushes to the doctor for medicine but he is dead and a giant monster is attacking everyone. This is one a stranger on a flying sword appears. He defeats the monster and tries to help her save her father, but he cannot. Her father dies....this stranger is 'Mr.Mo'

--At the Same time, the Lord of Strange Decay and his servant (a woman with no eyebrows) plot against Bai Zi Hua. It seems that the immortal was involved in the death of his father, the previous Lord of Decay, and now he wants revenge---

4.Hua Qin Qu (the girl) asks the man to stay with her for three days until her birthday. She has never celebrated it alone. He agrees, and helps make some repairs. In the meanwhile she tells him her life story, and we learn she is a fairly resilient, optimistic and cheerful girl in spite of all the hardships she has suffered.

5.On the third day, he leaves, casting a spell on her so that she cannot remember his face...

6.The man is in fact an immortal and the next leader of Chang Liu Sect; immediately after leaving Hua Qin Gu he arrives and is named sect leader...

7.Meanwhile, Bones is travelling and comes across a barrier. She cannot break it so she digs up some carrots and bathes. While bathing, she makes eye contact with a scholar drinking water near by. Embarassed, she screams, and so does he. He chases her down and introduces himself as Dong Fong, and he is on his way to the city to take the examination. He swears to marry her once he passes since he has seen her bathing, but she just wants to pretend it never happened and urges him to forget it.

8. This continues a ways and they eventually arrive at the Pavillion of Strange Decay. There is a pretty girl, Nan Mi Tien, who has a lot of gifts for the Lord of Strange Decay. Alas, he is only accepting carrots (how convenient!) and so Tien is ignored, making her extremely mad.

9.Hua Qin Qu is allowed in, and hears a lot of whispers and looks up--there are dozens of tongues hanging from the ceiling. this horrifies her and as she runs, the Lord of Strange Decay Appears. He offers to help her in her journey and in exchange for a drop of her blood and one of her secrets (which we are not told) he gives her a charm that will allow her into Zu Mountain (recall there is a barrier around it). She thanks him.

10.Meanwhile, on Zu Mountain, men in black led by a man with some AWESOMELY WICKED eyebrows are massacring all the sect members.

11.Hua Qin Gu arrives, alone, and is shocked at the scene of death before her. She looks for survivors...

12.Meanwhile, Bai Zi Hua and his senior brothers watch the scene on Zu Mountain. He recognizes her, and perhaps this is why he personally volunteers to check out Zu Mountain himself....(Bai Zi Hua has to like her a little he didn't have to personally go....)

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