In the White Mountains and Black Waters, snow and wind bury legends that never grow old. In the isolated northeastern village of Kaoshantun, the young Liu Yuling wants only to escape the “superstitious” life her ancestors led, summoning spirits and offering sacrifices to household guardians. She is a direct descendant of the legendary Great Imperial Shaman, the highest authority who once commanded the Five Immortal Clans and communicated with the worlds of the living and the dead. Yet she knows nothing of her heritage and is even afraid of it.
Then a terrifying calamity, sparked by spirit money left on a weasel’s grave, strikes the neighboring household. Liu Yuling witnesses a six-year-old child possessed by an evil entity, spitting yellow foam and thrashing like a madman. Under the overwhelming malevolent aura, the dormant bloodline within her surges hot for the first time. Forced to follow her grandmother, an old shamanic medium, into a deadly battle of magic, she sees firsthand the breathtaking power of cinnabar talismans that suppress evil and ancient daggers that pin down souls. Though gravely wounded, the evil entity escapes, taking one of the child’s souls with it. In its dying counterattack, it also plunges a sinister Soul-Hooking Spike straight into Liu Yuling’s soul!
