“Other people keep pets. Lin Shen keeps the remnants of mythical souls. Bai Wuchang crouches on his shoulder, afraid of dogs; Nezha gets caught sneaking sips of his cola and stubbornly insists, ‘This Crown Prince is doing you the honor of drinking it’; and Sun Wukong takes over the zoo’s monkey hill as his lair, munching bananas as he curses, ‘Host, you’re so stingy you won’t even buy me a peach.’ Yet somehow, these three deadbeats help him put an end to one bizarre urban haunting after another: the ghost in Building 2 gets beaten into revealing itself by a soul-locking chain; the red-clad vengeful spirit at No. 3 High School is burned to ash by the Fire-Tipped Spear; and the soul-snatching ghost at Central Hospital is smashed into wisps by the Golden Cudgel. Then one day, Ye Han’s scalpel stops in midair. ‘The Ghost Emperor’s aura is ten times stronger than last time.’ Lin Shen pulls out the fragment he just traded for, ‘Divine Souls as One,’ and kicks Bai Wuchang, cowering in the corner. ‘Everybody up! Time to get to work. This time, we’ll bring mythology into the human world and show the Ghost Emperor... who really rules this city!’”
