A fragment of the soul of the Great Khan of Tang awakens in the body of Zeng Guofan, a renowned statesman of the late Qing. Before him lies a decaying dynasty; beyond its borders, foreign powers eye the land hungrily.
Li Hongzhang: “Teacher, the foreigners’ guns and cannons are too powerful!” Li Shimin chuckles. “No matter. Watch as my Tang blades break their firearms and my Mo Dao formation shatters their courage.”
He thought this was merely a struggle for power among mortals. Who could have guessed that Western gods stood behind the Taiping rebels? Enraged, Li Shimin ascends to the heavens and calls out to the ancients: “Where are the ancestral gods of Huaxia?”
The Imperial Jade Seal blazes with light, the Xuanyuan Sword tears through the sky, and Chiyou lets out a battle cry from the Ninefold Underworld. As the gods of the East awaken in full, this war of gods and imperial ambition, destined to engulf the world, is only just beginning...
