I Am the Demon King; Exorcising Ghosts Is My Own Salvation

Volume One: Qian, Heaven. Inside the Hall of the Three Pure Ones at the Tai Xuan Temple, the Director of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau used century-old yarrow stalks to divine the future. To his shock, the words "The Demon King is born; the Chief Minister will lose his head" appeared. Little did he know the stalks had been controlled by a Blood Oath Gu. Shen Wangzhi, the young deputy head of the Tai Xuan Temple, quickly sensed something was wrong. At a crucial moment, he used the temple's treasured artifact, the Jade Pivot, to reverse the stars' course, only to find his own birth details carved into its inner surface. The Demon King appeared and declared that the laws of Heaven were fashioned from his flesh and blood, sparking a profound philosophical conflict: Is exorcising ghosts a way to uphold the laws of Heaven, or to rebel against a predetermined fate?

Volume Two: Kun, Earth. A mass grave containing thousands of bodies was unearthed at Mangshan. The hundred corpses bore fragments of the Classic of Filial Piety, and their blood had formed a monument with backward characters. The female disciple Gu Zhao discovered that reading the inscription in reverse pointed to Shen Wangzhi, triggering the power of the dead to speak. The Demon King attempted to extract the Yellow River's dragon energy to forge ghosts. Shen Wangzhi used his own body as a human stake to suppress them, while Gu Zhao sealed the ghostly curse with her hair, in a thrilling display of fantasy and peril.

The volumes that follow include the strange death of the top scorer after an imperial examination scandal in "Zhen, Thunder," the chilling scene of a ghost coffin traveling upstream on the Yellow River in "Kan, Water," and the tragic case of spontaneous combustion caused by a lamp tree in a Han Dynasty tomb in "Li, Fire."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.