Soul Ferry: Tears of the Yellow Springs

There is a realm of death, the soul's road home, stretching eight hundred li. Without flower or leaf, it is covered in endless yellow sand. Thus it is called the Yellow Springs. Within dwell demons known as the Meng Po clan. All are women, wise and cunning, strikingly beautiful, fond of eating ghosts, and skilled at brewing soup. Meng Po's Soup is made with eight tears as its guiding ingredients. It takes a long time to brew, and its wondrous fragrance reaches the highest heavens. Any ghost who drinks it forgets all that came before.

---- Records of the Underworld: The Yellow Springs Scroll

The Yin Scroll is the greatest treasure of the Yellow Springs, commanding life, death, and reincarnation. Only on the day Meng Po marries may it be summoned to the Yellow Springs. Whoever marries Meng Po becomes the Yellow Springs' royal son-in-law. He must use a red brush to cross out her name on the scroll and erase her life and death, thereby escaping reincarnation and staying with Meng Po forever. Within the Yellow Springs, spring lasts ten thousand years.

---- Records of the Underworld: The Yellow Springs Scroll

Meng Po's Soup is made with eight tears as its guiding ingredients: one drop of the tear of birth, two qian of the tear of old age, three fen of the tear of bitterness, four cups of tears of regret, five cun of tears of longing, six cups of tears shed in illness, seven chi of tears of parting, and Meng Po's heartbroken tears.

The mortal world of the past is full of turmoil. At the end of the River of Forgetfulness, there is no way home.

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