At the end of the Yisi year, locusts swarmed across the land, and the Great Yu Dynasty fell into a famine so severe that the earth lay bare for a thousand li. Wang Hui, the son of a farming family, had suffered from his relatives’ favoritism since childhood, yet concealed both the secret that he had transmigrated and his inheritance of eerie Gu magic. When his village chose him and his little sister, Wang Ya, as living sacrifices to seek the “Mountain God’s blessing,” Wang Hui finally shed his cowardly facade. Using a flesh-devouring Gu to break through, he fled with his sister.
Bandits on the highway, refugee ambushes, and extortion by soldiers: in a famine, people’s hearts were crueler than wolves’. Xuan Qing, a Daoist priest from Blackwind Temple, kidnapped Wang Ya with a soul-locking Gu to complete a sacrifice of a hundred people and summon the “Mountain God” to bestow blessings through an evil rite. With his sister’s life held hostage on one side and innocent children being turned into sacrifices on the other, Wang Hui was forced to tread the dark line between humanity and Gu magic.
He fed his Gu with his own lifeblood and broke through every crisis with sheer determination. In Qingxi County’s power struggles and plots involving dark arts, he advanced with careful steps. The Hunger Gu devoured resentment, the Rotting Bone Gu executed evildoers, and the Tracking Gu uncovered the truth. This desperate fight for survival, soaked in blood and tears, was both a last-ditch salvation for the siblings and the fiercest retaliation against the cannibalistic customs and corrupt authorities of a chaotic age. When the Gu insects’ screams rang through Blackwind Temple, Wang Hui would wield them as blades, cleave open this chaotic world, and carve out a sliver of hope for his loved ones and his conscience.
I feel like magic is not powerful yet😂