Iron and Blood: Chronicle of the Gods

In the last years of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the Emperor Xin carved inscriptions in Nuwa Palace. He doesn't believe in God. God doesn't believe him either. In Chaoge City, royal power and conspiracy are intertwined. Everyone is playing chess and everyone is a pawn. Outside Xiqi City, seventy-two-year-old Jiang Ziya went to Kunlun. The master only gave him a volume of the list of gods and a sentence: You will know when the time comes. What he didn't know was that for every name written on the list of gods, a life was taken away. It's not an ascension, it's a call-up. Heaven is short of soldiers, and the dead will fill them. The princes raised their flags, Jie Jiao came down the mountain, and Chan Jiao played with the chessboard behind the scenes. Everyone thought they were fighting for their "destiny." There is no destiny. Never. There is only choice, and the price that remains unfinished after the choice. —— This book will use a multi-perspective narrative structure to re-deconstruct the myth of "The Romance of the Gods". There is no absolute good or evil, no destiny. Everyone feels that they are right, and everyone pays a price that should not be paid. Machiavellianism, war, betrayal, loyalty. Who is on the list of gods, who survives to the end, who makes a mistake in the chess game - there is no answer before opening it.