Record of the Calamity Cauldron

Ice and blood ignite the flames of war; a lone soldier takes command of the land.

Lin Qiu, a border guard, awakens amid the corpses at Tianku Pass, the golden blood of a barbarian shaman still on his palm. That color should belong only to the imperial bloodline.

When the Dragon-Locking Nail is pulled from his spine, a bloodstained jade record reveals his shocking origins: he is the forbidden son of the late emperor and a sea demon princess. The Azure Emperor's bloodline and the merfolk's icy essence wage war inside him, while the roar of the imperial heirloom, the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron, awakens a miasma storm that has slept for a thousand years.

“You intend to use that half-demon body to sit on the bloodstained throne?”

Confucian scholars wield their pens like swords to condemn his impure bloodline. Great clans and noble houses manipulate rotting, venomous corpse puppets to cut off his supply routes. Assassins with shadow blades from the Western Wastes lie in wait beneath the palace lanterns. At his side are only three thousand despised mixed-blood remnants, and a Soul-Splitting Spear pulled from a mountain of corpses.

On the Cang River, iron-linked ships burn as sky-piercing crossbows roar. Before the Zichen Hall, twin imperial manifestations summon ninefold tribulations of thunder.

When behemoths smash through the northern frontier's walls and the imperial jade seal reveals the demon clan's runes, Lin Qiu chooses the maddest path of all. He burns away his lifespan to activate the Nine Tribulations Imperial Scripture, using an emperor's destiny as bait to lure calamities from every direction and temper the mortal world.

“I will save this realm. I will pay the price.”

But no one told him that every time he used the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron, he would forget one of the emotions that made him human. When the final battle comes, seated upon an imperial throne built from white bones, he can no longer remember who the girl was who stitched his armor for him on that snowy night…

Dynastic epic × bloodline curse × hard-hitting warfare

Political intrigue runs through all five volumes, with seven kingdom-destroying battles that keep the stakes blazing!