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Bai Ning Bing The Bai clan's prodigy on Qing Mao Mountain, a Rank 3 Gu Master within two years of training, and the standard every other young cultivator on the mountain is measured against. Chapter 1 Fang Yuan The story's protagonist, a five-hundred-year-old demonic cultivator killed at the height of his power, who wakes in the body of his fifteen-year-old self with every memory of the life he intends to live differently. Chapter 1 Gu Yue Clan Leader The head of the Gu Yue clan, a middle-aged man with frost at his temples, who prays over his ancestors' tablets and watches the ceremony with a leader's composure. Chapter 1 Fang Zheng Fang Yuan's younger brother, a quiet, overlooked boy whose habit of looking at his own feet tells you everything about how he has been treated. Chapter 2 Shen Cui Fang Yuan's personal maidservant, attentive, warm, and entirely self-interested; she is the first person in his second life that he reads like a page. Chapter 3 Academy Elder The elder who leads the youths to the Aperture Opening Ceremony and calls each name, the voice of the clan's verdict on every child in it. Chapter 4 First Clan Leader The legendary founding ancestor of the Gu Yue Clan who led his people from Central Continent and established Gu Yue Village on Qing Mao Mountain. Chapter 4 Flower Wine Monk A legendary demonic cultivator of the past whose mortal clash with the fourth Gu Yue clan leader left both dead on Qing Mao Mountain. Chapter 4 Gu Yue Chen Bo A youth of the Gu Yue clan who walks into the flower field at the Aperture Opening Ceremony and is tested like the rest. Chapter 4 Gu Yue Chi Cheng Gu Yue Chi Lian's grandson, short, pockmarked, and publicly celebrated for an aptitude he does not have. Chapter 4 Gu Yue Chi Lian A red-haired elder of the Gu Yue clan, sullen in defeat and triumphant in his grandson's success, and willing to fake that success to get it. Chapter 4 Gu Yue Mo Bei The first youth in the ceremony to test well, Grade B aptitude with a primeval sea at sixty-six percent. Chapter 4 Gu Yue Mo Chen An elder of the Gu Yue clan, horse-faced and slow to hide his feelings, the rival Gu Yue Chi Lian plays out his ambitions against. Chapter 4