Lin Feng is an ordinary security guard scraping by in an aging apartment complex. He thinks the greatest danger in life is the icy wind on a winter night patrol. Then an old family seal unexpectedly awakens, and strange characters appear in a tattered book called The Essentials of Subduing Objects. His peaceful life is torn apart.
Residents of the complex begin vanishing in bizarre succession, leaving behind only eerie old objects: a rag doll oozing black water, an enamel spittoon streaked with blood, and more. Beneath the surface, the antique ghost market in the west of the city is abuzz, selling cursed artifacts that grant “wishes” in exchange for lives. With talismans glowing faintly and formations trapping souls, Lin Feng is forced to wield his half-mastered art of subduing objects and struggle to survive in the city’s shadows.
Yet an even greater horror lies deep in his bloodline. When Su Luo of the Special Affairs Bureau pulls him back from the brink of death with a blade of thunder, a truth that shatters everything he thought he knew hits him hard: the missing neighbors, the rampaging cursed objects, even the thousand-year mystery of the Subduing Objects Bureau’s demise... it all traces back to him!
Subdue evil spirits? No! The biggest and fiercest one of all lives inside him: the world-ending evil cauldron “Ten Thousand Bones,” forcibly sealed by his ancestors with their bloodline as its lock!
Hunted relentlessly by the Spirit-Raising Alliance and tormented by the cauldron’s ever-growing hunger to devour, Lin Feng must find an almost impossible tightrope between destroying himself and falling completely into evil. With a mortal body, he must master the power to end the world, become history’s most dangerous “Object Subduer,” cut through a thousand-year-old curse in the shadows of the city, and uncover a shocking secret capable of overturning the world!
