Dark Night in Jiangdu

Jiangdu is an ancient power perched atop a spiritual vein, surrounded by the Eight Great Houses and Four Great Clans. The Road of No Return marks the boundary, while the yin and yang realms guard secrets unknown to the world. The third son of the Li family, Li Junlan, is a "good-for-nothing" in the eyes of the world, always tending his medicine stove. His mother has been unconscious for three years, and his father and uncles disappeared during a campaign to exterminate the demon race. He spends his days with medicinal herbs, looking to everyone like a hopeless case.

But no one knows that when night falls, he becomes the War Court's most mysterious figure, the "Dark Night." His black dragon mask hides his face, and dark spiritual energy follows him like a shadow. The six branches of his Dark Night Alliance, covering medicine, trade, war, weaponry, concealment, and sorcery, weave a web across the world. Through all those days dismissed as worthless, he has been using the demon race's remnant souls and the shadows of evil spirits as soldiers, weaving a net of revenge and protection in the darkness.

When the poisonous vines of foreign infiltration wrap around Jiangdu's foundations, and the truth behind his elders' disappearance comes to light, what kind of storm will this "good-for-nothing" unleash upon the night? When the fragrance of herbs fades from the Locust Courtyard, watch as a shadowy halberd cleaves the sky. It turns out that what seems ordinary is merely the sharpest disguise.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.