Jiang Yan, a restorer of ancient texts, can save thousand-year-old damaged scrolls with his left hand, but his right hand cannot suppress the resentful spirits revealed by his Yin Eye.
> When the Southern Song text The Architectural Treatise begins to bleed, a real estate tycoon is found hanging from a beam in a Nine-Death Knot.
> When an elevator in an intangible cultural heritage park turns into an upright burial coffin, living people are crushed into mortuary figures joined by mortise and tenon.
> When the lead performer on a shadow-puppet stage sheds his skin and turns into a puppet, a bloody talisman appears on the screen, depicting a corner tower of the Forbidden City...
> The crimes of the traitor to the mystic sect remain unatoned for, while the evil Ming-dynasty craftsman Kuai Xiang opens his eyes and howls through a hundred living puppets:
> "Tradition is dead. I shall use wicked arts to keep it alive!"
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> Shen Hongli, a PhD in folklore, grabs Jiang Yan by his bloodstained collar:
> "Will you use the Lu Ban book to dig up the truth, or let the whole city become a sacrificial offering to intangible cultural heritage?"
