Introduction to "The Legend of Mountain and Sea Painting Soul"
Su Yan, a down-and-out scholar, was involved in the path of immortality because of a painting called "Rain at Night in Xiaoxiang". The woman in white in the painting, Qingyao, was originally a saint from the Qingqiu Fox Clan. A hundred years ago, she was plotted by an elder to protect the souls of mortals. Her immortal bones were gouged out, and her three souls were sealed in a butterfly-shaped jade pendant, a sea pearl of mermaid tears, and a Penglai crane feather talisman. Only one soul was trapped in the painting. Su Yan found this painting when he was young, and it turned out to be a "human container" made of immortal bones by Qing Yao. The soul contains the key to opening the door to the ruins.
The night attack of the dream-eating tapir in Moyu Town begins. In the process of searching for the token, Su Yan reveals the truth that his "nine reincarnations were all transformed into fairy bone fragments." Qingqiu Fox Girl's soul-stirring puzzle, the Kunlun Spirit Ape's secret key test, and the past life reflections of the Shark Kingdom's Shuiyue Mirror gradually revealed Qingyao's shocking plan of "cutting out bones to cast souls" a hundred years ago - she used the immortal bones as a guide to turn Su Yan's mortal heart into a chess piece to break the formation.
When the elders of the Fox clan and the evil dragon from the deep sea used the soul-catching flag to collect the souls of the world, in an attempt to subvert Yin and Yang through the Guixu Gate, Su Yan discovered that the three tokens were all transformed into Qingyao's broken immortal bones. Holding the wolf hair in his hand, he used mortal blood to rewrite the soul on the soul-capturing flag, and with the help of the fairy demon, he reversed the destiny. The cinnabar seal on the edge of the scroll, the verses in Meng Po's soup bowl, and the heavenly calamity in front of Guixu's gate all point to the truth: the so-called difference between immortals and mortals is just a lie by the strong, and mortal pens can also rewrite the boundaries between immortals and demons.
The novel combines the wonders of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" with Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, and uses chapters to outline the legend of immortal bones casting souls and mortals rebelling against their fate. In the entanglement between human beings, demons, immortals and ghosts, the novel composes a song of "painted bones become poetry, defying fate becomes true".
