Yunli Returns to the Sect

A-Qi, a lowly errand girl in a medicine shop, spent seven years hauling water, chopping wood, and enduring scoldings and punishments—yet she never forgot the child in the wanted portrait on the wall, the one with a spirit mark between her brows exactly like her own. When a tiny spirit beast brings her a jade token from the Xuantian Sect seeking lost kin, she gathers her courage and sends out a paper crane message. The sect leader himself travels to Qingyan Town, where a spirit-blood test confirms she is Yunli, the sect's precious spirit pearl who vanished seven years ago. Back in the sect, she sleeps until the sun is high for the first time and holds a bowl of warm porridge for the first time. At her homecoming banquet, she recognizes the medicine-shop couple who abducted her all those years ago. The ferry at Yunjin Crossing is sealed, and the truth finally comes to light. Renaming herself Yunli, she rises step by step from unwanted A-Qi to reclaim herself, steps into the trial grounds, and embraces a new life.