When folklorist Lu Jiuyuan’s compass pierces the demon-suppressing stele beneath the Huangpu River, he is forced to become a “Calamity-Bearer,” traveling between myriad worlds.
At night, cybernetic painted-skin demons that devour data roam the Demon Capital. In the Bund’s fog, a Cthulhu-like nine-tailed fox spirit lurks. And the ritual fan in his hand can even cut through the clouds into the immortal realm of cyber Chang’an! He battles the Japanese hundred demons’ night parade alongside a sword spirit girl from the Republican era, carves seals into the tentacles of Old Gods with oracle-bone script, and must beware the System AI Xuannü’s seductive whispers:
“Devour the Nine-Character Mantra, and you will become the new Heavenly Dao.”
Now, an Old God stirs inside a bronze cauldron, cracking the Oriental Pearl Tower, while the Freemasons’ alchemical matrix has already engulfed the dragon veins.
In this final battle between Eastern mysticism and Cthulhu, every strike of the Calamity-Bearer’s blade lands on the fault line between civilization’s survival and extinction.
