Hunting the God of Wealth

Since the Three Realms were divided, the Law of Conservation of Wealth has endured. Every 158 years, the four major factions of the Celestial Realm take turns sending someone down to the mortal world, using it as a chessboard to test how wealth affects human nature. Of the first nineteen Gods of Wealth, thirteen fell to corruption, and their sins still spread through the Three Realms: war rages in the north, karmic merit is inflated in Youzhou, corruption runs rampant in the Office of Reincarnation, and the rich grow richer while the poor grow poorer.

In Ping'an Alley in Yecheng, a small-time shopkeeper runs a general store. He's worldly and shrewd, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted. His name is Lu Xuanyu. By a twist of fate, he becomes the proxy for the twentieth God of Wealth, a pawn manipulated by the four major factions of the Celestial Realm. His mission is to hunt down the thirteen fallen Gods of Wealth. With each one he kills, the world improves a little. The souls of fallen warriors on ancient battlefields find peace, the Office of Reincarnation regains its fairness, the Celestial Realm's rules begin to loosen, and honest, upright people gradually emerge in the mortal world.

He fights his way from Youzhou's ghost market to the Celestial Realm's archives, from ancient battlefields to the deepest reaches of Hell, gathering allies along the way: refugee leader Shi Hu, the gifted Xie Daoyun, Civil God of Wealth Bi Gan, Martial God of Wealth Zhao Gongming, the faceless master of the ghost market, a young Pixiu, and ten repentant former Gods of Wealth. A nobody rises from the streets, going from pawn to player, and ultimately overturns a chessboard three thousand years in the making, rewriting the laws of Heaven.