Back From the Brink Episode 1 Recap, Plot

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Today is the wedding day of Tian Yao, the Spirit Dragon, and Su Ying from Guang Han Men. Tian Yao is filled with joy as he walks towards Su Ying in his red attire, making a lifetime vow to be together forever. The two embrace each other deeply.

Suddenly, Su Ying stabs Tian Yao's heart with a dagger, intending to take his heart scales to save the one she truly loves. Tian Yao cannot believe it when he learns from Su Ying's own words that their love was nothing but a weapon for her to obtain his heart scales. In his desperate situation, Tian Yao summons the Chi Yan Long Ya sword and takes off his red clothes, revealing a white outfit to engage in a battle with Su Ying. However, he is quickly overpowered by Su Ying and gets fatally injured. Tian Yao then combines his heart scales into one and removes it from his body, throwing it into the boundless sky with his own hands.

Upon seeing this, Su Ying was both shocked and angry. She immediately got up and went after them, but how could Tian Yao, who knew her intentions, let her succeed? He immediately transformed into a dragon and trapped Su Ying. Su Ying watched as the protective scale disappeared, filled with hatred. She knew that Tian Yao losing the protective scale was the beginning of the end, so she dismembered Tian Yao's dragon body and sealed him forever.

Yan Hui was born with a congenital heart defect. Her mother had to endure the pain and put her, still a baby, into a small wooden basin and pushed her into a river that was said to produce miracles, hoping that Yan Hui would survive. Yan Hui drifted with the current and was caught in a whirlpool. Coincidentally, Tian Yao's Heart Scale merged with her. Yan Hui had been wandering since she could remember, and she hoped to have a home of her own. Ling Xiao of the Chenxing Mountain took her in, and Yan Hui finally had a home. Yan Hui is now 20 years old and has been on the mountain for ten years. However, she is only a one-star apprentice and still has a strong desire for food and drink. This has caused her fellow apprentice, Shi Yue, to be dissatisfied with her, and the others in the same sect mocked her for not even opening her Sea of Consciousness and not being able to control a sword. Yan Hui was very angry when she heard this and flew away on her sword, shocking her fellow apprentices.

Yan Hui would always go to the Lock Demon Tower to eat buns every time she opened the valley, and this time was no exception. Just as she finished chatting with the imprisoned monsters and had eaten her fill, Ling Xiao sent a newly caught fox demon into the Lock Demon Tower and forcibly interrogated the newly transformed fox demon, asking where the Qingqiu Nine-tailed Fox was hiding. The senior fox demon Yan Hui knew didn't want Ling Xiao to torture the fox, so she spoke up for justice, but Ling Xiao killed her to make an example out of her.

Yan Hui appeared as a monster to plead with Ling Xiao, but instead of listening, he went on a killing spree and even attacked Yan Hui. Unexpectedly, Yan Hui's protective heart scales gave her power, and with one move, she blew up the Lock Demon Tower. Yan Hui took advantage of Ling Xiao being busy putting out the flames on his body and quickly released the monsters to escape. This angered Ling Xiao, who wanted to kill Yan Hui. Fortunately, Ling Xiao's master, Lu Musheng, came out of seclusion and saved Yan Hui, but he drove her off the mountain and from then on, Xingchen Mountain was no longer Yan Hui's home.

Yan Hui took off her clothes from Xingchen Mountain and changed into casual wear before leaving the mountain gate. Ziyue, her senior sister, caught up with her carrying a bundle of things. Yan Hui thought Ziyue had come to bid her farewell, but she didn't expect that Ziyue was disgusted with her pile of junk. Yan Hui was so angry that she pulled out Ziyue's sword and thrust it into the stone wall beside the mountain gate, indicating that they had different paths and couldn't work together. Then she left on her own.

Yan Hui hasn't been down the mountain for many years, so it was quite novel for her to be back in the marketplace. When she caught a whiff of the fragrance of baozi, she couldn't walk away, intending to buy five of them. However, due to her limited funds, she could only afford two. Yan Hui planned to go to Yongzhou to find Xian Ge, but that would require travel expenses, which made her worried. Tian Yao had already sensed Yan Hui and knew that the woman in front of him had his heart scales, so he had been paying attention to her.

Yan Hui was in urgent need of money, so she went to Qijue Hall to find a way to get rich. She exchanged one piece of information from Chenxing Gate for one star and hurried to the hiding place of the snake demon. After searching for seven or eight days, she finally found the snake demon. Yan Hui bravely subdued the snake demon, even risking being bitten. The snake demon knew that Yan Hui only wanted money, so it promised her three times the profit. This made Yan Hui, who loved money, couldn't help but calculate how many buns she could buy. Tian Yao secretly followed Yan Hui and threw a stone at a critical moment to attract her attention, allowing the snake demon to escape. Then, he unexpectedly knocked out Yan Hui and carried her back to Tongluo Village.

Tian Yao was considered a fool in the Tongluo Village. When the villagers saw him returning with Yan Hui on his back, they gathered around to watch. Some mischievous children even took the opportunity to shoot Yan Hui with slingshots. Yan Hui woke up to find herself in a haystack and couldn't help but complain that she wasn't left in a more comfortable place. When Tian Yao came to deliver food, Yan Hui asked him to let her go, but her appearance was Tian Yao's only hope, so he couldn't release her.

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