[Folk suspense | Taoist mysteries | Rule flow | Ritual flow | Waidan/ossuary pot | Dual-line narrative | Institutional game | Group portrait | Protect family | Growth | Slow-burning CP | Fighting of wits | Dark warmth | Passionate rationality]
The city is sealed in fog, doctors are banned in the dark night, and ghosts are not mentioned during the day.
Xu Guiyan, an apprentice doctor, once "stealed a shadow against a needle" to see through the "shadow of a disease" that is difficult for ordinary people to see. From then on, he embarked on the dangerous journey of seeking medical treatment during the day and crossing the Yin River at night.
The shadow-carrying talisman can be used to lend life to life, and the remaining breath can be continued; the white porcelain bone pot can warm the fire to refine elixirs, and build up external strength. A verbal contract can restrain sneakiness, but every "transaction" will come at a real price.
The iron rules of etiquette punish crimes according to the rules; the Bone Pot Taoist uses the entire city as a furnace to refine the pseudo-immortal way of "taking life as medicine".
Xu Guiyan shuttled between strict prohibitions and warm life, working step by step to uncover the truth layer by layer. He not only wants to save people's bodies, but also heal people's souls: to restore those creatures who are trapped in the "evil" and "human" realms by etiquette and law to their respective places. The new gift in his heart is - people are not medicine!
