Wu Ming, an abandoned infant born with an evil bone, had a Seven Killings fate that caused the deaths of three sets of foster parents. Chosen by the Yellow Immortal to become a spirit medium, he was forced to establish an altar. By day, he healed the sick and helped people cross over; by night, he suppressed the Ghost King's evil bone within him. Yet he was drawn into a conspiracy behind the "Demon Star's Reign of Chaos," and discovered that the suffering of every disciple over the past century had stemmed from a shocking fraud that overturned the balance of Yin and Yang.
Theme: Using flesh and blood as a lamp's wick to illuminate justice between Yin and Yang. Core conflicts: human greed versus the order of Heaven, and defiance of fate versus compassionate deliverance.
Fox Immortal Hu Sanniang (a top-tier star influencer) teaches me illusion magic to woo girls, but always calls me a "damn playboy" on livestream;
Yellow Immortal Huang Tianba (the king of taxi drivers) possesses me to race cars and catch ghosts, and keeps shouting, "My man, 666!";
Hedgehog Immortal Granny Bai (head of a pet hospital) cures every disease with silver needles, and scolds me even more harshly than she scolds dogs;
Willow Immortal Liu Qingxuan (an ascetic professor) arranges feng shui to set the world to rights, but I hold his bank card;
Rat Immortal Hui Xiaoqi (a socially anxious hacker) smashes through the wall between Yin and Yang with his keyboard, then asks me to help pay off his Huabei bill...
In forty years as a spirit medium, I've used science to debunk every paranormal mystery in Northeast China:
In the funeral home's basement, a living-dead flesh coffin breeds resentful spirits laid off in a wave of redundancies? (Bioelectric resonance, debunked!)
An entire village of weasels sends people dreams, while a human-skin drum booms through the night of a financial crisis? (Infrasound interference, debunked!)
A popular influencer livestreams a fox's wedding, while a matchmaking platform secretly steals people's red strings of fate? (Big data algorithms, debunked!)
The specter of COVID-19 runs rampant, while a plague Taoist refines panic into power? (The viral magnetic field theory, debunked!)
The last shaman: thunder signs in my left hand, code on my right. In this world of Yin and Yang, I, Wu Ming, will preside over the altar with science!
A million-word folk-horror mystery epic! Watch a Northeast Chinese spirit medium take on the tide of the times and uncover the ultimate truth behind scientific shamanism!
Headless [punch out]