You Said the Age of Declining Dharma Was Here, So Why Are You Suppressing the Underworld with Your Mortal Body?

Folks, tonight we're using the second law of thermodynamics to drive out ghosts!

Lin Yang, a biology graduate student, is forced to livestream ghost hunts to scrape together his tuition.

When he barges into an abandoned hospital carrying a spirit lamp and a vernier caliper,

the whole internet thinks it's a death wish staged for clicks...

Until he crushes a century-old fierce ghost with his bare hands, and a thermometer explodes at 300 degrees Celsius!

Ding! Host identified as a naturally Pure Yang Sacred Body. Yang energy concentration: equal to 100 Siberian tigers!

From then on, his scientific exorcism style goes completely off the rails:

Others fast before drawing talismans. He consecrates them with a microwave.

Elders of the Mystical Order set up formations for three days. He sprays alcohol, lights it, and exorcises a ghost in one second.

When the Underworld comes to recruit him, he fires back by sending King Yama a warning letter about labor laws!

Director, he melted a thousand-year-old zombie with his body heat... and is livestreaming sales of self-heating Yang talismans!

-- Minutes from the Spirit Energy Bureau's 27th meeting

Please don't go near the compass! It's a Western Zhou antique, it'll oxidize!

-- The daily breakdowns of a top student and campus beauty from the Mystical Order

When drilling in Antarctica triggers a crisis of rising Yin energy,

he shoulders a nuclear power plant's cooling tower and charges into a volcano:

Everyone, move! I'm giving the Earth a fever shot today!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.