When horror arenas become battlegrounds determining whether nations survive, the Dragon Kingdom teeters on the brink of destruction due to a break in its horror culture. Chen Mo, a history graduate student with a photographic memory, has committed more than five thousand Chinese horror tales to heart. With nothing more than the movement of his lips, he can bring the spectral bridal sedan and the corpse-strewn mountain's black coffin to life, turning the eerie legends of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and What the Master Would Not Discuss into weapons against his enemies.
Facing the Sakura Kingdom's Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, the Eagle Kingdom's mechanized slaughter, and the Triumphant Empire's dark magic, Chen Mo gradually awakens the power of the “Red and White Fiends” on the blood-red arena. The red sedan marries souls, the black coffin seals lives. As life and death intertwine, a wave of Chinese-style horror rises, making the entire world tremble. Yet as he overuses these forbidden powers, the Fiends' will quietly begins to erode his mind.
When three great powers form an Alliance to Annihilate the Dragon Kingdom and unleash a world-ending demon god that devours the rules themselves, Chen Mo turns every horror story stored in his lifelong memory into a grand formation that draws all ghosts to its court. This is the ultimate battle of cultural understanding, and a heroic epic about a storyteller reshaping the rules of horror with his own flesh and blood. Chinese-style horror will at last awaken from ancient, long-sealed books and become humanity's final line of defense.
