Calamities

A lie can cover the world, but it cannot stop the sun from rising.

In the Empire of the Great Seal, the sky is a gilded cage and the silence is a weapon. Lu Zian, a scholar of the elite Ling Yun Sect, walks the earth as a paragon of grace, a living masterpiece of jade and white silk. But beneath his elegant robes, the ink on his skin is turning black, and the "Dignity" he represents is a hollow shell built upon a secret that could drown the world in blood.
When the sunset bell rings, the demons rise. But they are not the only things hunting in the dark.

Huo Yan, a fierce martial artist with a sword named Sun and a heart full of ash, is a man who has lost everything but his target. He doesn't seek the "peace" the sects promise; he seeks the source of the rot. When he forces the distant, untouchable Lu Zian into an uneasy alliance, he doesn't realize he is walking alongside the very ghost he is trying to kill.

Their journey will take them beyond the safety of the talismans, into forgotten forests where the trees scream and cities where the water remembers the taste of the dead. As they hunt the manifestations of human fear, the bond between them grows-a dangerous heat that threatens to melt the ice of Zian's deception.
In a land where truth is a death sentence, their greatest threat isn't the monsters outside the walls-it's the moment the Sun finally looks at the Moon and sees what is hidden in the dark.