After the Journey to the West, Buddhism flourished in the eastern lands and then sought to spread south across the seas.
No one knew that this was the last hiding place of the remnants of the Jie Sect.
After their crushing defeat in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation at the Investiture of the Gods, they fled here, becoming the last surviving lineage of the Hierarch of Heaven’s Will.
There was never a place for the Jie Sect at the Heavenly Court’s Peach Banquet or in the Supreme Lord Lao’s golden elixirs.
To seek immortality, they turned to producing counterfeit longevity pills in the South Seas, surviving in secret for a thousand years.
More terrifying still, this bloody business was secretly protected by both the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain.
Now Buddhism openly heads south to spread its teachings, but in truth it means to devour this lucrative enterprise and cut off the Jie Sect’s last hope.
Old grudges remain unresolved, and new enmities arise. The Jie Sect’s followers vow to resist to the death.
Has the Hierarch of Heaven’s Will, missing for a thousand years, been watching coldly, or secretly laying his plans?
A hidden history of the Investiture of the Gods and the dark secrets of the South Seas are about to erupt in full!
This novel draws inspiration from the horrors of Southeast Asia’s criminal underworld: organ harvesting, heart transplants, and blood transfusions to prolong life, much like “alternative Peach Banquet elixirs” in a fantasy world.
To discover the life-and-death showdown between Buddhism and the Jie Sect in the South Seas, and uncover truths buried for ages, read Black Myth: Journey South Through the Primordial World!
