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Go Lake ImmortalAuthor: Kunieda Shiro
| Original Title | 鵞湖仙人 |
|---|---|
| Author | 国枝 史郎 |
| Genre | Fantasy & Sci-Fi |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In springtime Shinano, a swordsman of noble bearing pauses at a lakeside tea house. Yui Shōsetsu—rebel scholar, master strategist—watches an ancient man glide across Lake Suwa’s frigid waters as though walking on air. This is Go Lake Immortal, keeper of forbidden Taoist arts, whose mansion hides scrolls of unimaginable power. But darkness clings to the immortal’s legacy: spectral warriors rise nightly from the Tenryū River, their skeletal horde dragging his granddaughter’s soul aboard a ghostly warship. To claim the secrets of water-treading sorcery and Ninefold Heavens techniques, Shōsetsu must outwit both immortal and phantoms. Yet every stratagem unravels—ninja stealth fails, divination reveals cursed ground, and a mournful dirge hums with buried warnings. As dawn bleeds through bloodied negotiations, Shōsetsu bargains not for gold but knowledge, unaware that unraveling the ghost ship’s riddle may bind him to forces older than empires. Between drowned commanders’ wrath and an old man’s desperate pact, the price of power ripples outward—a single misstep could drown the world. |
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