In the Great Chu dynasty, the Buddha's radiance blots out the sun, yet a world-ending killing intent lies hidden beneath it. Meng Yao, the proprietress of a weapon shop, is unexpectedly drawn into a shocking conspiracy to overthrow the dynasty. The dying monk's lost Scripture of the World-Ending Buddha's Curse chooses her, and a golden Buddha in a sacred Buddhist sanctuary suddenly descends with “heaven's punishment,” branding her a demoness who will bring calamity upon the world. To clear her name, she joins forces with Liu San, a bandit who is neither wholly righteous nor wholly evil, only to step deeper and deeper into the fog:
**· The Buddha is no Buddha, the demon is no demon**
The Wuxiang Sect uses the name of Buddhism as a front, controlling the court and the common people with ghost-faced bronze talismans. It refines the flesh and blood of eminent monks to awaken the “Brahma Coffin.” Beneath the golden light of heaven's punishment, the people turn into blood puppets, and the moat floods backward into a sea of blood from the underworld.
**· A mysterious past, twin lotus souls**
Deep in an underground palace, a crystal coffin holds a “twin lotus soul” whose appearance is identical to Meng Yao's. The secret history of the destruction of Buddhism three hundred years ago and the silver-patterned soft sword passed down by her family push her toward a life-or-death choice: the Buddha or the demon, all in a single thought.
**· A seven-day countdown, the collapse of yin and yang**
Armed with a tiger tally that can command the Black Armor Army to destroy Buddhism, and bearing the backlash of the Scripture of the World-Ending Buddha's Curse, Meng Yao must uncover the truth behind the illusion of the Bridge of Helplessness before the red lotus flames of karma consume Jinling...
**This is a gambit with Brahma's realm stained in blood**, where power struggles and faith intertwine. The villain of yesterday becomes the final guardian, while the so-called “heaven's punishment” is nothing more than the Wuxiang Sect's bloody ritual for opening a passage between the realms of yin and yang.
