Raising the Evil Spirit

At sixteen, Gu Yan joined the army, riding into battle and shedding blood and sweat for nearly ten years. However, he was framed by treacherous ministers and demoted by a foolish emperor, who feared the high merits of his ministers would overshadow his own shaky rule. Accused of treason, he was sentenced to death by a thousand cuts, and with a single light decree of “execute him in the market, exterminate his family,” the emperor sent one hundred and seventy-nine members of his family to their deaths. With the pain of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four deep cuts engraved in his bones, Gu Yan did not enter the cycle of reincarnation but instead attached himself to a “luck-bringing ch...