The Human Emperor falls, and the Heavenly Hound devours the sun.
The demon clan’s Zhulong tears apart the sky screen, while the Twelve Demon Sages lead strange beasts from across the mountains and seas to rule the mortal world.
The Demon Ancestors of the demon clan command torrents of turbid qi, as the primordial world’s baleful energy ravages thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.
The Western gods raise their lightning scepters, and the holy light of Olympus scorches the firmament.
Chen Guan, a human boy, awakens a good-for-nothing bloodline, yet at the sacrificial ceremony, he stirs the ancestral artifact to resonance.
As ancient bronze blood flows backward from his heart, twelve zodiac totems light up one after another along his spine.
“So my father, the Human Emperor, was killed as part of a scheme plotted by all your races?”
The boy draws a bloodstained bronze dagger, and behind him appears a thirteenth phantom never before seen since time immemorial.
“Today, I’ll turn my broken body into kindling and burn all the heavens as an offering!”
