East Wind Breaks: International Edition

In the third year of Tianqi of the Great Yong Dynasty, rites and music collapsed, and imperial power fell. Strange phenomena occurred frequently in the world; whenever chaos arose, a 'black wind' would appear, driving mortals mad and allowing cultivators to attain enlightenment. This was the 'Path of Deception,' using one's own body as a vessel to seal the terrifying wind demon. Gu Qingzhou, orphan of the former 'Wind Observer' of the Imperial Observatory, is now a blind storyteller wandering the martial world. Though blind, he can discern wind direction by hearing and see the 'shape of the wind' invisible to others; within him is sealed a mysterious purple aura, both the only antidote to suppress the wind demon and the source coveted by various forces. He wished to live a carefree life, but was forced by a strange 'east wind' into a shocking conspiracy to overthrow the dynasty. His father's tragic death, a secret letter, a red-clad wind demon seeking vengeance... When the copy of 'The Story of Yue Fei' hidden in a zither case was stained with blood, the blank pages finally revealed the truth that would overturn the world. The east wind rises, the nation's fortune wanes. Should he submit to fate and become a wind slave, or use deception to cultivate truth and tear through the darkness? Gu Qingzhou, holding a broken three-stringed zither, walks and sings amidst the black wind: 'Since the sky of Great Yong has a hole, let me listen to why the east wind breaks!'