The Fortune-Teller in Hemp Robes

The Mountain Sect cultivates the Dao and teaches the Dharma; the Medical Sect saves lives and heals the wounded; the Destiny Sect draws talismans and concocts pills; physiognomists observe the heavens and discern fate; diviners make swift judgments about what is to come and what has passed!

Thus, the Mountain, Medical, Destiny, Physiognomy, and Divination schools are known together as the Five Branches of the Mystic Sect! Since ancient times, physiognomy has been divided into the Jianghu School and the Scholarly School. Yet another clan belongs to neither, and has produced one exceptional master after another for generations. Over the past thousand years, seven of its members have attained divine mastery of physiognomy, earning the title Divine Physiognomists of the Ma Yi tradition!

This clan is also revered as the world's most mysterious family of physiognomists: the Ma Yi Chen Clan! The essence of the Chen family's art is contained in the rare book Records of Master Yishan. Master it, and you will understand yin and yang, know the ways of human affairs, and excel at...