From Mountain Wanderer to Peerless Demon Emperor

In the Great Sheng Martial Dynasty, country folk who travel through the mountains have a saying: “Don’t enter the mountains after dark, or you may never make it back.”

Across the hundred thousand mountains and the four surrounding seas, nightfall means certain death. Lin Xuan transmigrates into the body of a lowly hunter and awakens the golden finger known as the Demon-Summoning Banner.

[Demon-Summoning Banner: The Demon Emperor can obtain the essence of the demon clans under his command, alter their origins, reshape their bodies, and grant them countless forms.]

Command goshawks to gain the gift of keen-eyed observation; command hounds to gain the gift of tracking by scent; command mountain lords to gain the gift of making others do their bidding; command apes to gain the gift of long, powerful arms and a slender waist...

The martial path is hard, and resources are vital. Resources must be sought amid danger, where they can just as easily be lost. You have a one-in-ten chance of finding them and a nine-in-ten chance of losing them. Great Sheng's martial artists brave demon mountains and perilous seas in search of scarce resources.

Lin Xuan leads a yellow hound on his left and a goshawk on his right, dressed in a brocade cap and sable coat. A thousand riders sweep across the level ridge as he hunts mountain game and gathers heavenly treasures with ease.

He harvests the golden gallbladder of a bear, ties a red string around a ginseng doll, slays a centipede for a Wind-Steadying Pearl, and digs a Starstone out of a mudfish burrow...

Many years later,

Lin Xuan becomes the Martial Emperor of the human race. The people cry out: “We beg the Martial Emperor of the human race to suppress the forbidden zones, pacify the demon mountains, and fill in the perilous seas, restoring peace to the world!”

The demon mountains, perilous seas, and great demons of the forbidden zones all charge into the Central Plains. To the astonishment of the human race, the demons bow their heads: “Greetings, Demon Emperor!”

Lin Xuan says, “How was I supposed to know? I was just hunting. How did I end up as the Demon Emperor?”