He transmigrates into a cultivation world and takes on the roles of gods and Buddhas from all realms.
As Dizang, he guides the dead, his thousand hands lifting the boundless mortal world, his Buddha’s gaze illuminating the deepest underworld!
As Zhenwu, he sweeps away demons, his dark robe sending stars tumbling as the tortoise and serpent roar and wipe out the fiends!
As the mad Buddha Jidian, he shakes the halls of the underworld with his broken fan, while wine and meat pass through him and every sin dissolves into nothing!
The wrathful countenance of a Vajra, the compassionate countenance of Guanyin, Zhong Kui with red hair and a mouth full of ghosts…
Night hearings at the City God’s temple, painted-skin phantoms, spirits begging to be given titles, stone Buddhas weeping blood, spirit mediums, knife sellers who sell on credit, coffin makers, and underworld messengers.
Years pass, and the world changes. When Yuan Nian once again touches the blank mask, on the stage where all beings kneel, the god who makes every evil spirit tremble… is the face beneath the mask his own?
