Chen Wang, a corpse watcher at a funeral home, encounters a weasel spirit one night that borrows a mirror to ask for a title. A bolt of palm-fired blood lightning shatters its sinister scheme, but draws him into the secrets of the Taishumen, tied to his parents' disappearance twenty years ago. Half a fragment of a lost scripture conceals the true art of talismans, while a bronze compass reveals deadly omens from the Yellow Springs. He travels through haunted villages and ghost markets, breaking formations in ancient tombs and ice palaces. As he unravels one strange case after another, from ghostly wedding processions carried by paper figures to underworld bailiffs who seize souls, he discovers that the Blood Fiend Sect is refining souls by draining their essence, while the Yellow Springs Cult seeks to reopen the passage to the underworld. Watch as he uses human blood as his guide and talismanic runes as his blade to slay every evil spirit, until at last he uncovers the ultimate mystery of how the Taishu tradition will overturn the balance of yin and yang...
