The heavens split open, the night’s murk engulfed the world, and painted-skin ghosts wreaked havoc in Xuandu.
Lu Heng, a modern criminal investigator, transmigrates into the body of a low-ranking lamplighter and finds himself trapped in a deadly predicament from the start.
Poisonous oil has replaced every everlasting lamp in the city. Court officials collude with the Night Cult, and demons lurk in human hearts.
Everyone sees only delusions. I alone possess the Candle-Seer’s Eye, able to see through every disguise in the world!
A ninth-rank lamp wick, an eighth-rank burning flame: with a mortal’s life on the line, he slays every evil fiend in the world.
He has no power or influence and stands at the bottom, yet he dares to burn his lamp in sacrifice to the Way and strike down the blood demon!
The darkness cannot hide the righteous path’s brilliance, and demons cannot extinguish a loyal, courageous heart.
The long night in Xuandu stretches on. I, Lu Heng, will raise my blade and light my lamp to illuminate the human world!
Lu Heng was a lowly lamplighter in Xuandu, a life as insignificant as a blade of grass.
Only when he entered the depths of a strange case with his lamp did he discover that “guarding the lamps” meant protecting not only the roads, but also people’s hearts and the Heavenly Way.
From mysterious cases in Xuandu’s narrow alleys to the eerie mists of Smoky Dream Marsh;
from the thousand-year lament of Frostbone Plains to the peerless forbidden lands of the Red Sand Sea.
Along the way, he wielded the power of a mortal to carry out the most extreme acts of slaughter.
Only the lamp in his hand and the fire in his heart could kindle his life-lamp and shatter illusions through one deadly struggle after another.
When the eternal night finally descends, he will be the last lamp in the human world: an undying light that shines through the night!
This is an ancient supernatural counterattack novel with a full sense of atmosphere. It has a novel setting, eye-catching characters, and plenty of excitement and suspense. As long as the subsequent plot is well controlled and the combat system does not collapse, it is a novel worth reading for a long time.