Chapter 1

"With disheveled hair I sing defiantly, till death I shall not cease!"

"A sound strategy is the very hinge of victory and defeat!"

"Yang Qi pierces the Three Passes, behead the corpses and banish the yin-fiends!"

"Rivers churned, seas upturned, the Six Directions fixed and Heaven and Earth set!"

He drew one at random, and the smile reserved for a warrior of the netherworld spread across Gu Xuan's face:

"My apologies—every last bean of yours, I'll be taking them all!"