This is a world of cultivators: Daoists, Buddhas, Confucian scholars, martial artists, demons, and gu...
In the second year of Yongzhao, the Great Yu Dynasty is in turmoil. With the Empress Dowager ruling from behind the curtain and having already replaced two emperors, undercurrents are stirring both inside and outside the court.
Zhao Cuo opens his eyes to find himself the eldest son of the Duke of Zheng's household. His fiancée is the most beautiful woman in the capital, and his family is the Empress Dowager's foremost attack dog. As long as he clings to this powerful patron, he should be set for life. Compared with those transmigrators who have learned to keep an increasingly low profile, he's an utter failure.
“What! My fiancée is a demon spy? And a princess of the Demon Court beyond the northern frontier?”
“Colluding with demons is a crime punishable by the execution of three generations!”
“The Empress Dowager is going to have me killed?”
That very night, Zhao Cuo quietly poisoned their nuptial wine with something potent enough to knock out a Great Sage of the demon race. As the heir to the Zhao family, which has guarded Demon Lock City for generations and controls the Directorate of Punishments, he has a complete set of torture implements.
Yet that night, the beautiful and detestable demoness planted in him the “Dragon Vein Maggot,” the most vicious Gu worm in the world!
To suppress the worm, Zhao Cuo cultivates both Daoist arts and Gu techniques, and commands the Ministry of Justice as it interrogates demons across the land. Years later, looking back, he has attained the Dao and become a Gu Immortal!
“My name is Zhao Cuo. Cuo, as in ‘make the best of a mistake’!”
