"Little blind boy, the word 'doom' is written into your fate."
Before the old Taoist died, he pressed half of a bronze mirror into his hands. "On the night of your fifteenth birthday, no matter what you hear, do not open your eyes."
But that night, paper money outside the ruined temple fluttered like black butterflies, and seven red coffins crashed through the wooden doors. The female ghost in red at the front lifted her veil. The scar on her face was exactly like the one in Lu Zhao's dreams!
"Open your eyes!" The ghost's nails dug into his crown. "You were a soul examiner, but sealed your divine sight and pretended to be blind? I want you to see clearly who made me fall into the Avici Hell!"
Amid the agony, Lu Zhao's eyes cracked open with a snap. The darkness receded, and the ghostly energy filling the room became flowing ribbons of light. A half-jade thumb ring was caught in the red-clad ghost's ribbon. It was the paperweight in the county magistrate's study. The blue-faced ghost's ribbon led to the funeral home, where twelve children's corpses were buried underground...
"So all your karmic debts are hidden in the world of the living." He pulled off his blindfold, revealing eyes shimmering with golden light. "I'll pass judgment on you."
From mountain villages to towns, from ghost markets to the netherworld:
He exposed an evil cultivator who borrowed ghosts to extend his life, then stuffed the man's soul into a ghost-raising jar;
He kicked open a side hall of the Underworld Office and sneered at the slacking judge. "Eight lives are missing from the Book of Life and Death. Will you fill them in yourself, or should I do it for you?"
Until one day, his soul-examining eyes evolved into Yin-Yang Eyes.
The reflection in the mirror was none other than the figure from a thousand years ago, standing by the Bridge of Yin and Yang and rewriting the cycle of reincarnation with a brush.
"So I've waited a thousand years for this life."
Lu Zhao ran his fingers over the cracks in the bronze mirror, a cold smile curling his lips. "The Underworld is in chaos, and reincarnation has gone astray. Then..."
"I, the judge of Yin and Yang, will set it right."
