A Book of the Bizarre

(No System, one female lead. A vast supernatural world unfolds through tales of folk horrors.) On the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the twelfth year of the Republic of China, Li Xianzong, a night watchman at a funeral home, discovers a blood-soaked coffin during a thunderstorm. He rescues a baby boy whose umbilical cord is still attached, but the mother is already dead. Strange phenomena accompany the baby's birth: black cats gather, corpses stir, and talismans spontaneously combust, hinting at the child's unusual connection to the underworld.

A cultivation system belonging to Yin deities begins to unfold. First, one cultivates the Yin spirit through the stages of Corpse Dog, Hidden Arrow, Sparrow Yin, Swallowing Thief, Non-Toxic, Removing Filth, and Stinking Lung. Then one cultivates the three souls: the human soul, the earthly soul, and the heavenly soul. These correspond to the three souls and seven spirits. Once Yin spirit cultivation reaches its endpoint, one reverses yin and yang to become a Yin deity and uncovers the true world shared by humans and the supernatural.