Inspector of the Yellow Springs

Death and the night were her companions. She unveiled a corner of the Yellow Springs and entrusted this life to it. When the time came, it would descend to your side.

Everyone knew that King Wen had nine legitimate sons. The ninth was named Ji Feng, known as Kang Shu. He was enfeoffed in Wei and stationed at the ruins of Yin, where he later died in the flames of war. Few knew that Ji Feng was actually a woman.

In those turbulent times, she disguised herself as a man from childhood, binding her hair and wearing a cap to protect her life. She moved among the royal clan and court as a man, studied the laws, managed civil affairs, and was entrusted by her elder brother with guarding Chaoge.

All her life, she was cautious in meting out punishment and upheld virtue, judging countless wrongful cases. In the later years of King Cheng's reign, remnants of the Yin forces in the eastern lands rebelled again, and war erupted. Ji Feng personally led Wei's troops to quell the revolt, but was surrounded. Pierced by arrows and crushed by stones, she died on the battlefield.

When her allotted years came to an end, her integrity, long experience with criminal cases, and record of never rendering an unjust verdict caused her righteous spirit to linger rather than disperse. She did not enter reincarnation. By chance, Heng Si, Lord of Youdu, came in person to the mortal realm and made an exception to guide her, appointing her an Inspector of the Yellow Springs.

The histories of the human world end on the day she died in battle. On the road between yin and yang, her work had only just begun. Once, she judged the crimes of the living. Now, she passes judgment on the wrongs suffered by the dead.