In the Face of Calamity, I Become a God by Sending Others to Their Deaths

During the Shenlong era, demons and monsters thrive in the shadows of the Great Tang.

Dugu Mo wakes up as an officer in Wannian County, Chang'an, tasked with investigating cases involving ghosts and spirits. He investigates the hanging corpse the Imperial Guards dare not touch and uncovers a princess's affair with a demonic Daoist. He interrogates the fox spirit shrine the Court of Judicial Review dares not examine and exposes a chancellor embezzling the imperial treasury. He investigates the Locust God sacrifice the emperor dares not trust and unearths a curse ritual in the imperial harem.

With a transmigrator's cool head and a constable's blade, he slays a monstrous serpent amid the blood-soaked streets of Pingkang Ward and destroys an evil cult in a secret chamber in Liquan Ward. He narrowly escapes death in the underground tunnels of Baolin Temple. Behind every bizarre case lie Nanzhao sorcery, palace secrets, and the dark influence of the powerful.

Then blood mist seals off the city and the court is thrown into turmoil. Acting alone, he sets the various factions against one another and secures a crucial piece of evidence capable of overturning the game in an abandoned courtyard in Huaiyuan Ward.

This is the path of a lone wolf walking on thin ice. Dugu Mo knows that to survive in Chang'an, where the uncanny and the human heart are equally treacherous, he must grip more than his saber. He must hold onto the truth, the one thing capable of making the gods of heaven tremble.