Chen Haibin Yixue's Second Book

1. In the winter of 1918, night lay like ink over an ancient Yellow River ferry crossing. Four sedan chairs carried four warlords from the southeast, northeast, northwest, and southwest to meet there. Zhang Benchu, in military uniform and gripping a gun, guarded the crossing. Mu Xunyang used divination to unravel a scheme within a scheme. The one-eyed Ning E hid his greed behind his gaze, while the frail Li Ruohui secretly held a dragon scripture. And then there was the female commander Sun Jingshu, standing in the cold wind in her qipao. An old Daoist used his life as bait, while a wooden box concealed the secret of the “Four Treasuries United.” A tomb-raiding conspiracy entangled with the fate of the realm quietly opened at the blood-red ferry crossing...