In the Lingshu Realm, demons cannibalize people and powerful families eat bones. After Li Jin saw his relatives become the nourishment of "corrupt mothers", he started his career by digging through the heads of tax collectors with a rusty hoe. He tamed lame counselors, crazy Taoist priests, and slick intelligence dealers, traded prisoners of war with the Frostheart Demon Army, and paved the way to power with the heads of powerful men. When the "Blood Tax Law" replaced the old order, the Spirit Marrow Mine exploded and swallowed eight thousand civilians, and the blood of his former brothers became the base fluid of the throne, Li Jin finally understood: the so-called hero is just the word "human" chopped into the shape of a demon inch by inch. And new mycelium has quietly wrapped around his ankles...
