Collected Relics from Market Town: Notes of a Taoist Priest in the Republic of China

In the early years of the Republic of China, before the smoke cleared, strange things happened again. Chen Xu, a young Taoist priest who studied in a poor Taoist temple, thought that his life was to guard the Taoist temple with few incense, occasionally telling people's fortunes and exorcising evil spirits to make a living. Until he was invited by Smith, an enthusiastic foreign scholar, to go to the mountains of western Hunan to record the centuries-old Nuo opera that was about to be lost. What awaits them is not an ancient ritual, but a forbidden village shrouded in the shadow of death. Living in Shuidong, every house hangs a Bagua mirror and never leaves the house at night. The villagers kept it secret, and the old man warned in a trembling voice: "As soon as the play starts, there will be no human on the stage, and you will have to take your place!" The scholar sneered and sneaked into the forbidden area late at night with his camera alone. The next day, Chen Xu found only an old machine that was still rotating. In the camera, the scholar is worshiping crazily in front of the empty forest, as if he is the most pious sacrifice in that ancient sacrifice... Since then, Chen Xu has been trapped in a whirlpool. A life-devouring "Nuo-faced evil coffin", a bloody contract in which human beings were sacrificed. The strange evil spirits in the dense forests of the Miao border, and the thousand-year-old Yin soldiers who drove away corpses on the ancient road. The collision of science and metaphysics in the Jinling Association, and the undercurrent in the ghost market of Nanjiang City. Science and superstition collide, tradition and heresy clash. In this troubled world where demons and monsters are rampant, Can Chen Xu uncover the mystery of his life experience, control the dangerous power in his body, and prevent the ancient evil god from fully awakening? A suspenseful folklore adventure that runs through the north and south of the Republic of China, a Cthulhu-style journey of oriental monsters that deeply penetrates people's hearts and fears, begins...