Chapter 1 - The Black Ox Speaks Under the pitch-black sky, an uninterrupted chain of mountains lay there like a huge beast, quietly awaiting the break of dawn. A hamlet sat below a small hill shaped like a crouching ox. “Li Er, get up and get to work!” A loud shout broke the silence. A middle-aged farmwife with a somewhat wide waist yelled at a cowshed. Within a pile of straw in the cowshed, a skinny young man immediately...

Chapter 1 - The Black Ox Speaks Under the pitch-black sky, an uninterrupted chain of mountains lay there like a huge beast, quietly awaiting the break of dawn. A hamlet sat below a small hill shaped like a crouching ox. “Li Er, get up and get to work!” A loud shout broke the silence. A middle-aged farmwife with a somewhat wide waist yelled at a cowshed. Within a pile of straw in the cowshed, a skinny young man immediately...