The Legend of Lin Yu: Maoshan's Ghost Extermination Records

In a remote mountain village, night fell like a vast black curtain, weighing heavily over a dilapidated thatched cottage. Inside, a husband and wife looked down at the infant in his swaddling clothes, their faces filled with sorrow and their eyes with helpless resignation. A sudden, severe illness had left the baby extremely weak, and the family simply couldn't afford his continued treatment. In the end, the couple steeled themselves and decided to abandon him.

Later, the head of the Maoshan Sect found him and took him back...

Later still, I became the direct-line eldest disciple of the Celestial Sect of the Maoshan Sect, and its 23rd-generation sect leader. Having revealed too many secrets of heaven, I defied the balance of yin and yang. ...