I Am Zu Ti: Transmigrating to the Eastern Jin, I Crush the Five Barbarians

Star patterns devour the heart x bloody power struggles x a tragic romance amid chaos: See how a fallen war god rekindles the spark of Huaxia amid his lover's ashes, wielding the netherworld as his blade to purge the northern barbarians!

As spring rain in Jiankang City seeps through an imperial edict, carrying the stench of blood, Zu Ti grips Yun Niang's bloodstained hairpin. Just three days earlier, this begonia-red beauty had taken a poisoned star-patterned arrow meant for him by the Fushui River, fired by Murong Chui. Now all that remains is the silver-blue pattern spreading across her ice coffin, echoing the blazing Big Dipper tattoo on his collarbone. Another secret envoy from Sima Rui arrives at the military camp. On the rubbings of the twelve Danyang golden figures, fragments of star-patterned steel gleam with an eerie light. The emperor's vermilion decree says, "Lay down your arms," yet he allows the Langya Wang clan to sell poisoned steel to Shi Le of the Jie. Zu Ti traces the star-patterned veins spreading beneath his armor and finally understands why the Yangtze churned with bronze-colored waves when he struck the oar in the river. It was no mere oath-taking, but a sign that a Host of the star patterns was awakening. As Murong Chui's meteorite greatsword cleaves through the passes of the Taihang Mountains, and Shi Le's netherworld cavalry tramples the ice of the Yellow River, Zu Ti breaks the golden token before Yun Niang's ice coffin. The star chart of the Twenty-Eight Mansions bursts from his armor and shoots into the heavens. The army of the dead, awakened inside the bronze cauldron of the underground palace, stands ready for battle. In this moment, he is no longer an abandoned pawn of the Eastern Jin. As a devourer of hearts, he will command the secrets of the star patterns and rewrite the blood-red firmament of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Five Barbarians.