What can a human being be permitted to conform to survive?
In a disintegrated Jianghu with the red moon and black sun, martial arts remain to reign the world- however, all great methods consume their masters. Shen Wuye is a one armed man with a demon in his missing arm who has to keep seven days solo in a mountain pass against monsters, kings and the brotherhood oath which requires him to recreate humanity into something which would be pure.
He has no army. No reinforcements. One haunted boy to remind him of the reason to fight, a vile monk singing as he kills which is a brutal monk, a bride of the furnace and orgasm on a dislocated bone, a scavenger on the battlefield, female, who will bury him in case he does turn out to be what she fears.
The ash scripture palace is situated beyond the pass. Within the ribcage of a dead god, incarcerated is Shen Zhaoming, the Mirror Lord the ex brother of Wuye who, the former brother of Wuye, was a grinning fraud saint whose art embodies all injuries reverted into the organs of their assault. In his view pain is evidence of the necessity that humanity has to be repainted. According to Wuye, it is suffering that makes people remain human.
Between us: seven days of war. Seven nights of horror. The red moon consumes it all with seven opportunities to answer the question.
The World
The Nine Ash Kingdoms have become dead or dying. It is a wrong sky: above in the north, there is iron snow, below, there is ash-rain, and high above, there is a red moon too close at daggers. Unsuccessful growers do not merely pass away but grow to be monstrous in the landscape bone-root hills, whispering wood, flesh shrines, armor-ghost generals, wandering endlessly through the battlefields.
There is no side that would be righteous. People are burnt in the empire as food. The Orthodox sects preach chastness and starve the disciples on the dead gods. Evanish cults are sincere in brutality. Horror is buried in monasteries, but in other cases, it is determined that mercy requires carrying out mass killings of place of towns before the diseases are transmitted.
The Protagonist
Shen Wuye 25, with one arm crippled, swearing, weary. A technical genius that Widow Clan and Funeral Monastery, all female, had trained him to be. The Blade Fed Demon is in his lost left arm where he can release it at a horrific price. His Ghost Faced Aura is the Thousand Hand Flesh Saint The halo of gouged arms and sewn prayer hands, Which can sew space, bend blades, and Heal him in the middle of the fight. Each utilisation makes him lose humanity. His worst nightmare: to win by turning into that which he lives in order to bury.
The Mission
Hold the Black Pass for seven days. Wave of: Corpse Banner Spear Clan cavalry, refugees of the plague have become weapons, war bands of demons, kings in relic armor and the Pale Horse the undead warlord whose presence alone causes fighters to envision their own death. On the 7 th day, assuming he still has breath, he enters the ribcage of a dead god to kill his brother.