The Hidden Population

Not everyone in this world walks in the sunlight. After failing the college entrance exam, Lin Feng is like a speck of dust, swallowed by the tide of migrant workers in a southern city. Then he finds a copy of The Art of Guiding Qi at a secondhand bookstall, and sees in the eyes of an old shepherd an invisible sword pointed at the space between his brows. Only then does he realize that beyond the seven billion people in official statistics, another five billion unknown “beings” are hidden from view. Cultivators, demons, evil spirits... They lurk in the shadows of cities, brushing past you and me. But the price of glimpsing this new world is cruel. His brothers are forced apart, his mentor dies fighting for him, and deadly pursuers follow him like a shadow. From a basement in an urban village to the bamboo forests deep in the mountains of Shu, the only things Lin Feng can rely on are the mysterious bronze token he carries and a Daoist heart tempered in desperate straits, ready to face death in pursuit of life. This desperate journey, which began at the bottom of society, is slowly uncovering a shocking secret tied to the fate of the entire world...