In the third year of the Yuanyou era, drought stretches for a thousand miles, corpses of the starving litter the land, and the old and new factions at court scheme against each other.
People believe the chaos of the Great Song began in the hearts of men, but Shen Yan sees demon clouds blotting out the sun above Bianjing. Fox spirits beguile officials in their own homes, ghostly maids whisper in the shadows, Western Xia sorcerers refine the souls of the dead on the border, and a thousand-year-old demon watches as the dynasty's fortune dwindles.
Transmigrating into this world, Shen Yan wields the Myriad Images of Mountains and Rivers Chart. He gains arts by slaying demons and seizes techniques by destroying evil, wielding a single long sword to suppress the monsters of the realm.
From a low-ranking clerk in the Demon-Suppression Bureau to commanding the Western Army and holding immense power at court; from pacifying Western Xia and reclaiming the Yan and Yun regions to destroying the Liao and subduing the Jurchen.
This realm is home to humans, demons, ghosts, and gods, as well as countless ordinary people struggling to survive.
If the Zhao Song dynasty cannot defend this vast land, then he will.
