Gu Chenzhou has long run a Buddhist amulet business in Bangkok, Thailand, and is used to seeing the desires and greed of his customers. But when a client brings home a cursed amulet and suffers a terrifying transformation, with strange insects growing in his flesh and nightmares filled with curses, Gu realizes that this evil is far beyond anything he has encountered before.
With no other choice, Gu seeks help from a black-robed Ajarn, only to learn that the client’s black magic is mixed with a mysterious form of Gu poison from China’s Miao borderlands! The one who tied the knot must untie it. The Ajarn warns him that their only chance of survival is to find a true practitioner of Gu magic.
Following faint clues, Gu ventures into a mist-shrouded Miao village deep in southwestern Guizhou. Isolated from the outside world, the village is home to women of breathtaking beauty, but it also conceals deadly dangers. There he meets Wu Yu, the village’s most gifted Gu witch. She is stunningly beautiful and cold as ice, with terrifying poisonous insects and Gu creatures at her fingertips.
One is a modern Buddhist amulet merchant caught in a deadly crisis and forced to turn to ancient mysticism. The other is a Miao Gu witch who bears the weight of an ancient inheritance and has never had anything to do with the outside world. To save lives and uncover the truth behind the bizarre fusion of black magic and Gu sorcery, they are forced to join hands and head to Bangkok.
Thus begins a terrifying journey between the dark side of Thailand’s cities and the secret depths of the Miao borderlands. Sinister Kuman Thong, vengeful flying-head curses, love spells that consume the heart and soul, and terrifying new poisons born from mutated fusions of Miao Gu sorcery... Behind layers of paranormal horrors, a vast dark organization seeking to control life and overturn the established order gradually emerges.
Gu Chenzhou and Wu Yu are forced to struggle for survival amid endless terror and deadly danger. The power of the ancient Buddha within the amulets and the Miao borderlands'
