That character, Song Jiang, was released from a stone tortoise and opposes the corrupt official Gao Qiu, who seeks to root out the "Stars of Destiny."
Assholes in this novel include a pair of tavern owners that drug their customers, murder them and serve their flesh in buns. In chapter 26, a coroner steals bones from a funeral pyre to prove that a man was poisoned. After being poisoned, the protagonist of this novel dreams that the "Tower-Shifting Heavenly King" told him that an "earth fiend star" south of a river can cure him. Its protagonist kills his concubine (*) Yan Poxi when she attempts to blackmail him. That character, Song Jiang, was released from a stone tortoise and opposes the corrupt official Gao Qiu, who seeks to root out the "Stars of Destiny." For 10 points, identify this novel named after the 108 bandits based in Liangshan, one of the four great classical novels of China.
Assholes in this novel include a pair of tavern owners that drug their customers, murder them and serve their flesh in buns.
Water Margin [Accept Shui Hu Zhuan or Outlaws of the Marsh or All Men Are Brothers]