The Heavenly Demon Tribulation: The Last Light of Longyuan

In the autumn of the thirty-fifth year of the Jiajing reign, Japanese pirate raids in the southeast grow ever more violent, while undercurrents swirl through the martial world. On the night his family is massacred, Lu Hanxing, young master of the Grain Transport Gang, witnesses a mysterious figure perform the long-lost Seven Fiends Palm of the Heavenly Demon. While fleeing, he encounters Jiang Muyun, a reclusive swordsman, and learns the Shadow-Sweeping Lone Goose Sword, which holds secrets from the previous dynasty. He does not know that the blue mark on his right wrist is the bloodline seal of Heavenly Demon Island. A bloodstained fragment of The Celestial River Strategy raises three great mysteries: - Lu Hanxing’s mother was a runaway holy maiden of Heavenly Demon Island. The half of a strange book she sealed inside him before her death conceals the mystery of meteorite radiation. - Lu Bing, the Jinyiwei commander, uses resistance against the Japanese pirates as a pretext to secretly bring about the celestial phenomenon of the Nine Stars in a Row, hoping to use Heavenly Demon Island’s power to purge the martial world. - Heavenly Demon Island, deep in the East China Sea, appears once every sixty years. Beneath the island lord’s bronze mask is none other than Zhu Wan, the minister who fought the Japanese pirates and was recorded in history as having “slit his throat to atone for his crimes.” From Sanjiangkou to Poyang Lake, from Putuo’s Buddhist radiance to the magnetic prison of Longyuan, Lu Hanxing struggles between good and evil: - His confidante Liu Sheng Qianye takes a Heart-Devouring Curse meant for him and becomes a weapon who knows nothing but slaughter. - His mentor Jiang Muyun’s true identity is none other than the martial world’s leader, who supposedly “died suddenly” twenty years ago. - When the ninth form of the Shadow-Sweeping Lone Goose Sword meets the ultimate secret of the Seven Fiends Palm of the Heavenly Demon, he must choose: Will he sacrifice all living beings to break the bloodline curse, or make himself the vessel to end a calamity that has haunted the world for a hundred years?