In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, before Anlu Mountain arrived, Chang'an collapsed first.
In the pile of corpses under the Suzaku Gate, Cui An, the chief secretary of the Demon Suppression Department, took out a prince's private seal from the mouth of a palace maid's corpse. The strange ghost seal at the bottom of the mark reveals the heinous deal between the prince and the demon - exchanging the fate of the country for demon soldiers, and exchanging millions of lives in Chang'an for a "prosperous age" that usurps the throne.
Cui An has a pair of "retrospective eyes". By touching the corpse, you can see the last three moments of the deceased's life. The price is that every time you use it, you are one step closer to death. He was originally a low-level official in troubled times, but because of this glance, he became a target of the whole city.
From Yizhuang to the ghost market, from Longshou Canal to the Hanyuan Hall underground palace, Cui An fled all the way and uncovered the truth along the way. He held two things in his hand: a "Chang'an Demon Directory", which was filled with the true identities of the court officials; and a prince's private seal, which was ironclad evidence of internal purges in the royal family.
The female general in red Li Lingshuang, the half-demon Li Bai, the remnant soul of the Shence Army... In the wasteland, everyone is in danger. And Cui An just wants to settle an account: How many lives does this rotten world owe?
When the demon soldiers in Anlu Mountain poured into the palace from underground pipes, and when the "Guo Zhenguo Stone Beast" underground in Hanyuan Hall was awakened by evil magic, Cui An finally understood——
His eyes were not looking at the past, but the last afterglow of the Tang Dynasty.
