Title: Life Hunter.
Synopsis:
In a divine-and-demon imperial court where national fortune crumbles, a python and sparrow swallow the dragon.
The martial world seizes the Ministry of War, the Demon Sect controls the Ministry of Punishments, heretic factions occupy the Ministry of Revenue, the underworld commands the Ministry of Works, and the Demon Race usurps the prefectures.
Within the Golden Throne Hall sit halls full of scarlet-and-purple officials, alongside demons, devils, and puppets. The high ministers of state are nothing more than wraiths and ghouls.
Li Qingxian, a proper life master, finds himself deeply entangled in the Nine Dragons Struggle for the Succession, having offended every single prince. Yet, why does not a single prince possess the True Son of Heaven destiny?
Wait, why does that Seventh Princess have a dazzling string of destinies flashing over her head: Sun and Moon Suspended in the Void, Heavenly Star Divine Illumination, Heaven-Bestowed Sacred Diagram...
A county magistrate who offended a powerful eunuch and was beaten with the rod before being demoted actually holds the Destined Assistance, Aid in Propagating the Resplendent Light, and Three Generations of Scarlet and Purple destinies? Time to send some charcoal in the snow.
An illegitimate son of the Duke of Rongguo whose whole family was exiled ends up wandering the streets after being imprisoned, yet he bears Bright Moon Over Heavenly Gate? Time to send some charcoal in the snow.
What to do when the charcoal is running low? Observing destinies and gazing at auras, the concubine-born son of the Estate of the Marquis Who Pacifies the North, Ye Han, is about to have a divine technique blasted out of him by heavenly lightning, while the illegitimate son driven out by his legal mother in Vice Minister Li's household is about to buy an authentic fragmented manuscript