The Thirty-Six Thieves' Guilds

A bizarre haunting plunged the middle school in a small county town into panic. But it was only a master thief from the hidden Third School using a supernatural technique to snatch objects with a gust of wind. I splashed sulfuric acid on one of the thief's arms, and by pure chance became his apprentice. He taught me two secret arts, The Cloth Pouch Scripture and The Rat-Taming Method. Before long, I became the foremost of the Four Great Thieves of the Bandit Way, with the alias Night Sky King.

When the Guanglan River flooded, I stole an old softshell turtle egg from beneath the whiskers of a catfish as big as a boat, then lured the old softshell turtle into the sea and ended the disaster. In the red pine forests of the northeast, I stole back children kidnapped by mountain demons. At Erma Bridge on the Xishan Weir, I stole from a person possessed by a ghost, and made off with an evil spirit umbrella, a rain-summoning coin, and a piece of flame-striped cloth. Open the evil spirit umbrella, and a person vanishes. The rain-summoning coin will cry, “Heavenly Mystery, Master of All Things,” as it hangs in the air, and then rain will fall. Wipe anything with the flame-striped cloth, and it will catch fire...