The Way of Extremes: In a Warlord-Torn World, I Begin by Installing the Filthy Candle Dragon

In the Republic of China era, martial arts rule the land, while demons and monsters run rampant. Warlords and demons carve up the country from within, while Western powers circle from without! The foreigners use Western cannons to destroy ancestral temples, sever the dragon veins, ban martial arts, and wipe out the nation and its people! Warlords join forces with demons, devouring human flesh and blood and slaughtering entire cities in their quest for immortality! In the imperial court, ministers break their spines groveling for surrender! In the jianghu, grandmasters cast themselves into the sea to die for their principles! The nation teeters on the brink of destruction! Huo Jiuzhou arrives in this world carrying the wondrous book The Classic of Mountains and Seas. By implanting different mythical beasts into his body, he can gain their supreme powers! [Implanting the Candle Dragon grants the trait: Light in the Darkness! Skill: Candle Yin. If the sun cannot reach it, what can the Candle Dragon illuminate?] [Implanting Bai Ze grants the trait: Bringer of Fortune and Bane of Evil! Skill: Know all things, become the foremost of all spirits, and command the words of the world!] [Implanting...] On a night of torrential rain, amid the ruins of a collapsed skyscraper, Huo Jiuzhou opens his narrow eyes and slowly pulls his arms from the heart of the ten-meter-tall Yamata no Orochi! Blood mingles with the cold rain, dripping from his fingertips! “Demons from beyond our borders, you must die!” He forges his body like iron and tempers his fists in flame, slaying fiends by night and wiping out villains by day. He will sweep away the demonic miasma and restore the land of China! This is an unconventional tale of the ultimate martial arts.