From the Start, I Faked My Death and Pawned Off the World in a Time of Chaos

On a rainy night at a mass grave, cross-border agent Shen Xi borrows a corpse to return to life as Chen Qi, a compulsive gambler murdered by his own brother and wicked wife. The moment she opens her eyes, a wandering soul in the lamplight comes to claim her life. She signs a debt contract on a black stele: earn enough faith power within three days, or her soul will be scattered!

Disguised as a man and hiding her identity by cutting her vocal cords, she subdues the God of Slaughter, Ye Sha, at the mass grave, kicks down the door and slaughters the adulterous couple, then reclaims her ancestral estate and makes the Chen Family Village respect her! The black stele can lend her anything; faith power is the price. She saves children and solves a mysterious case of tetanus, earning enough faith power with her miracle medicine to prolong her life. She takes on the county magistrate and breaks a strange illness caused by a red thread curse, forcing the corrupt official to exempt the people from taxes and crippling the wicked leg that did evil. She battles plague ghosts in an abandoned ancient kiln, discovers the Crow Army’s secret martial arts, and awakens Ye Sha’s true identity: Huo Lyu Xiao, the God of War of the Northern Border!

The secrets behind the ancient kiln’s ghost-forging operation come to light, and the plot of Tianxiong Army commander Huo Qingshan is exposed: he used living people to create plague soldiers and falsified death records to claim military pay. With the God of Slaughter at her side, a fox spirit in her ranks, and an exiled immortal under her command, Shen Xi establishes the Jinglan Army. With just five hundred soldiers, she defeats three thousand elite troops and overturns the entire game in Huaibei with her cunning!

With plague ghosts besieging cities, officials colluding with bandits, and armies massing at the border, she uses the black stele to borrow weapons and soldiers, and gathers faith power through the hearts of the people. From Chen Family Village to Bianyin County, from occupying a mountain stronghold to contending for the Central Plains! Who says a woman can’t stand her ground in chaotic times? With the black stele in hand, she borrows anything in the world and vows to carve out a bright new future in this cruel age, borrowing an empire that stretches for thousands of miles!