Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise! In the year of Jiazi, may all under Heaven prosper! At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, during the reigns of Emperors Huan and Ling, the proscription of officials left the people in dire misery. Xu Ji was a commoner from Jizhou, with no rank or title. The land was ravaged, and people were reduced to eating their own children, yet the Eastern Han court would rather spend its money compiling books and biographies than providing relief to disaster victims. As he was on the verge of starving to death, he received a bowl of rice gruel mixed with a little talisman ash. The healer and savior who gave it to him seemed nothing like the cruel man described in history. Xu Ji joined him in handing out gruel and traveling the land, yet all the officials called them bandits. If Heaven would not let them live, then they would overthrow Heaven. The Yellow Heaven shall rise.
