In 1938, a great famine struck Henan. The starving weren’t the only ones who ate people: there was also the curse of the Blood Compass!
The veteran Zhang San buried his family, seized a treasure, and entered a vicious tomb on Mount Mang, only to unleash a sealed Malice Dragon. With life-taking demonic runes spreading across his left arm, he had no choice but to flee with the mysterious scholar Qin Yue. The bone-binding ritual at Turtle Mountain and the soul-awakening rite in the Taihang Mountains could only slow the corruption. The Blood Compass turned out to be the key to sealing the source of the world’s filth, the Eye of Guixu: the Core of Breath Soil!
The evil arts of the Nine Chrysanthemums followed close behind, while mutated skeletal fiends hunted them relentlessly. Japanese drilling machines tore through the seal on Changbai Mountain. The purifying flame in the ice cavern had barely finished burning the demons when war erupted again at Starfall Lake on the grasslands. Faith and betrayal clashed in a struggle to destroy the “Filth Nail” driven into the earth’s veins.
As demonic runes gnawed into their bones, the jade body underwent rebirth. Their steps shattered the baleful spirits in Kunlun’s Valley of Death and exposed the Japanese drilling conspiracy beneath the mirage of Loulan. In the mangroves of the Southern Seas, they freed the blood-weeping “Tears of the Sea God,” before finally confronting the demonic shadow of Yamata no Orochi in a cavern beneath Mount Fuji! The goddess summoned the mountain spirit with her life, her light scattering into feathers of dust. The veteran’s battered body united the four powers and blasted through the demonic core.
Bearing frozen hope and fragments of Breath Soil, they ventured deep into the secret realm of Shambhala to face the shadow of chaos tearing through space and time. The veteran’s broken body, the starlight of the jade body, the shaman’s spirit, the giant’s lingering soul… Every sacrifice converged at the peak of Kunlun. Could Breath Soil be reforged? Could she, frozen in ice, return?
This is a road to burn away demons. Blood-soaked earth opens the netherworld; purifying flames reduce demonic bones to ash. With my battered body, I will burn this demonic hell, all for one thing: may Breath Soil fall silent, and may the embers of the stars burn bright forever.
