1988, Shimen County. Taoist priest Li Changsheng went down the mountain to practice under the orders of his master. When he first entered the world of mortals, he was involved in a series of headless ghost cases.
The heads of the seven victims disappeared out of thin air, with no trace of struggle on their bodies. However, there were magic talismans remaining inside the corpses - this was not an ordinary evil ghost, there must be evil cultivators who refined corpse puppets and controlled soul beads behind them.
Faced with the rationality of modern criminal investigation and the intuition of metaphysical perception, Li Changsheng and the criminal police captain Zhang Wei went from confrontation to alliance: one side used Taoism to pursue the soul and the murderer, and the other side used reasoning to peel off the cocoon. At the intersection of yin and yang, they jointly uncovered the shocking conspiracy hidden behind the ancient temple ruins and the Republic of China diary.
However, the case is only the prologue. The fever of the jade pendant, the cold light of the ancient well, the peeping shadows, the sorcery that has been buried for centuries, the in vivo experiments left by the Japanese during the Republic of China, and the unsolved mystery of Li Changsheng's life experience are unfolding page by page.
Master said: The mortal world refines the heart, and the Tao is in the world. Li Changsheng holds a peach wood sword and steps on the Bagua array, walking step by step from the mountain trails in the Qi training stage to the road to Yuanying.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.