The Blood Edict of the Nine Palaces

Pei Zhao borrows a corpse to exact revenge, gradually uncovering the dynasty’s shocking conspiracy to manufacture famine. But she discovers that she is the last orphan of the former dynasty’s Wu clan, and that her blood can awaken the forbidden power of the Imperial Jade Seal. Xiao Jin drinks her blood to prolong his life, only to be torn between emotion and reason. At court, eunuchs manipulate the fate of the nation with an abacus made of human bones. In the martial world, Medicine King Valley sells “forgetting powder” to erase the truth. And plague-bearing falcons, raised by a foreign wolf girl, circle across a blood-red sky. Nine regicide cases, nine deep-rooted ills of the dynasty. Every mystery Pei Zhao solves brings her closer to the heart of power, but also hastens the decay of her body.