The Walking Mr. Yin Yang

When a grain of ashes of the times falls on an individual's head, it is like a mountain crushing faith. In the summer of 1986, high school student Chen Chuan harbored dreams of going to college, but was dragged back to the closed Chenjia'ao by a telegram that said his grandfather was critically ill. He has resented his grandfather's identity as "Mr. Yin Yang" since he was a child, and firmly believes that science is the truth. However, as soon as I got off the train, a strange chill followed me. His grandfather's terrifying warning before his death, the dark shadow lingering under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village, and the ancestral compass that can sense ominousness all cruelly declare that the world he has known for the past eighteen years is false. On the night of returning home, the young boy next door suddenly fell into a strange illness, convulsing incessantly, and the medicine was ineffective. In the desperate eyes of the whole village, this "cultural man" who only wanted to escape was forced to take over his grandfather's burden. With half a broken notebook and a compass pointing at a strange point, he chanted a spell in a trembling voice and was shocked... The child was rescued, but Chen Chuan knew that the real terror had just begun. The black energy that had dispersed from the child's body had not left, but was hidden in the shadow of the old house. And he, the "last Mr. Yin-Yang" who least believes in evil, must use a scientific mind to interpret the metaphysics of his ancestors. He must survive amidst the bizarre folk happenings - from water ghosts pulling feet to Yin soldiers taking advantage of the passage, from smoke rising from ancestral graves to corpses mutating in ancestral halls - and step by step uncover the terrible curse that has haunted the family for three generations. In this fierce collision between man and ghost, science and superstition, old tradition and new ideas, can he break his fate and put an end to it all? With a compass and half a volume of broken books, he traveled across the country for eighty years and told all the strange things among the people.