On the snowbound Northern Continent, where winter never ends, a terrifying legend is passed down about the “Day-Eater.” When the Soul-Hunting King awakens from its frozen slumber, the sun will be corrupted by its true name, the shadows of the living will grow fangs, and the dead will regain their heartbeat beneath the aurora.
The old hunter Mu Kui and his mysterious apprentice A Nuo encounter an ancient curse on Soul-Returning Peak, sealed off by a blizzard. Black-blood crystals seep from the cliffs, transparent hands reach out from caves, and faceless figures count human heartbeats in the storm. All are signs that the Soul-Hunting King is about to break free. Strange events are also unfolding in Lai Ke Town at the foot of the mountain: a bronze gate split open in the glacier swallows the living, a lunar mark appears in infants’ pupils, and at the cost of his life, the town shaman glimpses the coffin of the Watcher sleeping beneath the ice.
When Mu Kui’s bloodline awakens the Frostwolf totem, and A Nuo’s hide map transforms into streaks of light and rouses a woman in an ice coffin, they discover that they were written into a god-slaying pact a thousand years ago. The twelve fragmented authorities of the Soul-Hunting King are reassembling, and the chosen beings will become vessels for its return to the world. In this death march against the clock, the secrets of their companions cut deeper than the blizzard, and knowing the name of a god is more dangerous than the aurora.
An epic tale set on an Eastern icefield against a Lovecraftian backdrop, this is a story of the truth behind a god-slaying buried beneath the snow, and the burning light of humanity in an endless winter.
