The Xiangxi Soul-Summoning Records

The protagonist, Chen Jiu, has lived in seclusion with his grandfather in Luoxia Ping, western Hunan, since childhood. His family has passed down the secret art of summoning souls for generations, and he has been exposed to strange matters of yin and yang from a young age. When he turns eighteen, his grandfather mysteriously disappears, leaving behind half a tattered soul-summoning manual, a Yellow Springs Lamp, and one warning: Do not guide vengeful souls, enter yin formations, or meddle in century-old cases. But yin and yang have fallen into chaos in the mountain villages of western Hunan. At midnight, ghosts carry coffins along the mountain roads; spirits weep blood in an abandoned village house; a wedding dress turns into a vengeful ghost; and a child’s nighttime cries summon sinister spirits. Strange folk-horror cases erupt one after another, villagers die gruesome deaths, evil spirits cling to the living, and villages are shrouded in yin energy. Forced to break his grandfather’s rules and leave the mountains, Chen Jiu carries a soul-summoning bell and bears a strange pure-yang meridian. He walks the shadow roads of western Hunan, guiding the souls of the wrongfully dead, unraveling folk yin formations, and suppressing unruly evil spirits. Classic standalone cases: Ghosts Carrying a Coffin on a Rainy Night, The Ghost Bride of the Abandoned House, The Substitute Victim on the Mountain Road, The Well That Imprisons the Yin Soul, and The Night-Crying Spirit on the Burial Hill. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.