Editing Shih Demon Hunters (section)

===Ten Suns Over Cathay===

The Wan Kuei of the Shang finally put their plans into action, and enacted a powerful ritual.  Supercharged by the Yama Kings, and powered by the sacrifice of thousands of innocents, nine additional suns rose into the heavens over the lands of the Chou, the horse nomads of the north, and turned those plains into dry and dusty deserts.

The Chou, who were preparing for a showdown with the Shang anyway, saw this as a blatant attack, and finally made war with the Shang.  As man battled man, ''shen'' also battled ''shen'', as having ten shining suns in the sky put a damper on many of their usual activities.  And through all this the Wan Kuei and the Yama Kings revelled in the suffering of everyone else.

Three months of this madness followed.  This culminated in the forces of the Chou finally colliding with the Shang at Anyang, where the Chou general Wu Wang would cut down the bestial Shang emperor in his burning palace.  And high above the chaos of battle, Yi returned riding on Kung Kung's back, storms and rain in the dragon's wake, armed with a bow carved from the Trees of Immortality, and arrows made out of white jade.  

Yi took aim at the unnatural suns, and with each arrow snuffed them out, at the same time placing a curse on the Wan Kuei and their Yama King allies.  Nine arrows were let loose, nine suns disappeared from the sky, and nine curses were placed.  But the cost was high, as each arrow took a decade from Yi's life; by the time he alighted from Kung Kung's back, he looked positively ancient.

Though weakened, he lived to see the end of the war against the ''shen''.  As the people celebrated the ascension of the new emperor Wu Wang, Yi asked his followers close one last time, to follow and learn from his children, and bade them to continue to punish the ''Shen'' that would overstep their stations.  Many swore blood oaths, and Yi used the spilled blood to cast one final curse upon the Wan Kuei before he passed on: the Hungry Dead would never be able to walk under the Sun ever again.

As for the Shih, some would become part of the Chou Dynasty's military for a time, who would grow fat and complacent as the Wan Kuei before them, but a great many others chose to become wanderers, and continued to follow Yi's teachings of only punishing the ''Shen'' who overstepped their bounds.  The former would eventually die out when their fortress at Kun Lun was destroyed by unknown means (some point to the Yama Kings again to being the cause), but the latter see that the Shih spread beyond
China.