Lin Shen scrapes by telling fortunes at a street stall, with nothing to his name but an heirloom copper coin split by a crack. Then a deranged old man drags him into a world-shaking secret: skin-painting spells, an evil bronze cauldron, a thousand-year blood debt... Every sinister clue points to the coin’s hidden reputation as a “master-devouring” omen!
The cool, mysterious Su Yanqiu arrives with cutting-edge technology, claiming the coin is a fragment of the ancient evil artifact known as the Seven-Star Nail, and the only key to suppressing the awakening Taotie. Science collides with the occult as modern instruments probe a thousand-year-old curse!
Forced into an alliance, the two compete for the forbidden text, The Ghost Records of the Green Satchel, and hunt down fiendish relics. Meanwhile, the official “Heavenly Secrets Bureau” watches coldly from the sidelines, while the heretical Seven Fiends mobilize in full force... Lin Shen discovers that the greatest danger comes from his companions’ schemes and the coin’s own curse. He must fight his way through the bloody clash between technology and the occult, or the entire world will become a sacrifice to an ancient pact.
