City Yin-Yang Master: Dao Chen's Case Files of the Supernatural

The novel opens with a suffocating Taoist duel: Shadow of the Shadow Sect's left protector urges the "Seven Evils Soul-Restraining Lamp" to break the formation, and its technique combines the insidiousness of Maoshan's "Three Yin Soul Searching Talisman" and Miaojiang's corpse exorcism. This setting that mixes orthodox Taoism with evil secret arts is just like the inheritance of the "Three Mountains Spilled Blood Sect" that actually existed in history - the fusion of the Zhengyi League's Mighty Silk and the Shangqing Great Cave Silk. What's even more impressive is that the author weaves the past events of the forbidden destruction of the "Three Emperors" into the plot: the prophecy that "the princes will become kings if they get it" burned by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty turned into the ultimate conspiracy of the Yingsha Cult to subvert the order of the world, creating a sense of fate that is closely related to the fictional "soul-eating urn" and the real Taoist classics. In the adventure in the forbidden land of the witch clan in central Guizhou, the "Six Ding Corpse Guard Formation" composed of giant bronze coffins formed an intertextual relationship with the Xiangliu relics in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", and the "Ancestral Witch Borrowing Method" performed by Chi Lian Wu Zhu embodied the ancient arcane mantras in "Songs of Chu: Conjuring Souls" into a tangible combat system. This creative method of "making classics come alive" makes the "canopy of heaven, capturing souls and chasing souls" recorded in "Tao Zang" no longer obscure words, but purple lightning that can burn the retina.