Ritual of the Poisoned Truth

In the 25th year of Kaiyuan, a disgraced scholar infiltrates a secret society that has twisted the Tang Dynasty's ritual codes into a death cult. As the Grand Ceremony of Purification approaches, he discovers that the boundary between sacred law and mass murder is written in the blood of believers who have learned to love their own destruction. In a world where the imperial court mandates lies to preserve cosmic order, one man's desperate grasp for truth threatens to shatter the very heavens.