Ever since Yang Guang ascended the throne, the people have lived in misery. Rumors spread that he had committed the heinous crimes of murdering his father and sleeping with his mother. Even as Yang Guang poured vast sums into building all manner of grand structures and indulged in a life of extravagant debauchery, forced labor and taxes kept expanding until the people could barely survive. He had no idea that in a dilapidated little village far away on Yanshan Mountain, a young man would one day stumble upon a secret manual, The Art of Raising Gu, and unleash a storm of bloodshed that would sweep across the land…
