My name is Zhang Tianshu, and I'm the least welcome disciple of the orthodox Longhu Mountain sect. My master said I was too softhearted to amount to anything, kicked me down the mountain, and left me with one order: "Destroying demons is justice."
But the very first lightning bolt I cast after arriving in Jiangning struck the wrong target.
A crimson-scaled flood dragon was undergoing tribulation to transform into human form. I mistook her for a demon and hit her with a Five Thunder Strike, nearly destroying a century of cultivation. She hates me to the bone, and I owe her my life.
To repay my debt, I went down to the Yellow Springs to fetch water, entered Dongting to slay a giant salamander, and destroyed the temple of the Five Manifestations Gods. I thought they were nothing but minor folk cases, until the Five Manifestations God sneered with his dying breath: "My master is waiting for you in the capital."
As I headed north, Embroidered Uniform Guard Thousand Household Xu Siwei, storyteller Jiuweihu, and Hu Sanye of the Northeast Five Immortals all entered the fray one after another. Beneath the capital, something that should not exist is sealed under the Altar of Soil and Grain. Resentful energy seeps day and night from the direction of the Wang Gongchang arsenal, and my revered master, Zhang Zhengxiong, stands at the end of every strange affair.
The Four Great Ghost Kings are already on their way. Chi You's seal is about to give out.
And all I have left is one lightning bolt that struck the wrong target.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.