Where the steam roars, the demon's eyes open, and centuries-old secrets are released tonight
When Watt's steam engine swallowed the first ghost soul, in 1848, a bronze dragon corpse suddenly appeared in the Thames River in London, when the Hiroshima nuclear flash became the curtain for the Night Walk of One Hundred Ghosts, in 1945, black blood oozed from the foundation of the Yasukuni Shrine, when Ch. AtGPT code tampered with the Book of Life and Death. In 2023, a Taoist priest from Laoshan received an electronic dismissal letter from Heaven. This century-old magical guide will tear open the steel skin of human civilization and reveal the metaphysical bones that have been entrenched for three hundred years underneath.
The Wall Street stock market crash was Pixiu's backlash against the greed of capital, the concrete of the Berlin Wall sealed the dragon-suppressing nail, and the Ming Dynasty needlework empress battled an AI model in the Taobao live broadcast room... The so-called industrial revolution was nothing more than a bloody secret battle between humans and spirits for the right to interpret the way of heaven.
This book uses strange monsters as a knife to dissect modernity: when Meng Po Tang needs FDA certification, when Monk Lei Fa obtains a high-voltage electrician certificate, and when Yama Temple implements KPI assessments - you will see the secret of alchemy in the nuclear reactor, Lei Bu's drunk driving record behind the crash of the satellite chain, and the absurd epic of Bitcoin mining machines suppressing the evil dragons of the Yellow River.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.