In late autumn of 1976, the secret of Dragon Bone Mountain had only just been buried again. Chen Shanhe, Su Qingying, and Zhao Tiechuan returned to the world of the living, battered and scarred. But the true catastrophe had only just begun.
On the fifteenth day of the tenth lunar month, a blood moon hung in the sky. The soul of Qiuniu, suppressed for three thousand years by nine bronze artifacts, had not completely fallen asleep. Its second “evil thought,” Yazi, sensed the blood moon’s Yin energy and broke free through a crack in the seal. Yazi, the second son of the dragon, is the embodiment of killing, with a thirst for blood and a love of battle. Three thousand years ago, the royal diviner of the Western Zhou split its soul in two. Its good half was sealed beneath the main altar, while its evil half was locked away at Dragon-Severing Terrace, a forbidden place barely mentioned in the Guanshan Secret Records.
Dragon-Severing Terrace is not a physical place, but an ancient battlefield suspended in a rift in spacetime. The fierce spirits of generals who died in battle throughout the ages are trapped there, turned into Yazi’s “blood food.” Now Yazi has awakened and seeks to devour a hundred thousand fierce spirits, forge itself a physical body, and return to the world of the living.
