The day he was nailed to the altar at five years old, Hou Yi remembered three things: his mother's final words, carved as she choked on blood; golden blood dripping from a mountain spirit's fangs; and his biological father's skull boiling inside a bronze cauldron.
Ten years later, when nine solar cores awoke in his spine, he finally understood the curse: golden eyes would appear, and ten suns would blaze in the sky. The star of disaster, scorned by the Shangqiu tribe, was actually a vessel for the resurrection of the ancient Shigong tribe. He drew a vermilion bow with his left hand, while arrow bones grew in his right arm. Each time he shot down a Golden Crow, a new solar core took root in his blood.
"The godslayer will ultimately become a new god." In the ruins of the Moon Palace, Chang'e's frigid marrow became a poison of passion on his lips. At the summit of Kunlun, the Queen Mother of the West's game of chess forged him into a weapon for killing her own son. And inside the bronze gates, a corpse with his exact face was awakening through every arrow bone.
From an abandoned child in the deep forest to a tyrant who shot down the suns, from emperor of the mortal world to prisoner of the Guixu. When the ninth arrowhead pointed at his own heart, he finally realized that heaven and earth were a bow, and all living beings were arrows nocked to its string.
"The true sun-shooter never aimed at the sun."
He aimed at reincarnation, at the human heart, and at that spark of fire that refused to bow, feared by both gods and demons.
(Mystery and cultivation + a fresh take on mythology. Uncover the extraterrestrial parasitic conspiracy behind the Ten Suns scorching the heavens, and follow young Yi as he shoots through the greatest lie of the Three Realms, caught between the corruption of his divinity and the collapse of his humanity.)
