When I Bloom, a Hundred Ghosts Rise

Huang Chao, a failed scholar, used a single fire to expose the hypocrisy of the Tang dynasty's imperial examinations and destroy his own path to high office. Amid the bloody clashes of the salt smugglers and the flames of rebellion, his astonishing schemes brought down three hundred years of Li Tang rule. He took the throne in Chang'an and forged an unparalleled reputation as the “Heaven-Soaring General”!

But power corrupted him, and beneath the dragon throne lay nothing but bones. Zhu Wen betrayed him, warlords closed in, and Buddhist and Daoist masters watched for disturbances in the dragon veins. With nowhere left to turn, Huang Chao risked everything to devour the fortune of the realm, only to awaken an ancient taboo: he shed his mortal body and became a demon!

The tragedy at Tiger-Wolf Valley was not the end. Overwhelming resentment, the karmic burden of slaughter, and a shattered dragon soul fused and were reborn in the land of the dead! The moment the Chaotic Demon Lord opened his eyes, the rivers and mountains wept blood: Zhu Wen came for his life in the dead of night, ghosts roamed Chang'an, and the Buddhist and Daoist demon-quelling array crumbled… He wielded the overturning of Heaven's law as a blade, settling accounts with a rotten world!

Outwitting the warlords? That was only the opening move! An imperial dynasty among mortals? It had long since become a stepping stone to demonic calamity! In this game of slaying Heaven, with all living beings as the stakes and time and space as the board, is Huang Chao the one moving the pieces, or is it the mysterious “Master Xu” lurking behind the scenes?

“When autumn comes on the eighth day of the ninth month, ” This time, when my flowers bloom, all living things will perish!