Demons run rampant across the land of Jiuzhou. Dynasties crumble, and warlords carve up the realm. A thousand years ago, the Great Conferred Gods Formation shattered, and the rifts of the Nine Hells reappeared in the mortal world. The whispers of evil gods echo through ancient shrines in the wilderness and old temples deep in the mountains. Strange creatures take shape from folk customs: paper effigies roam by night to claim lives, Nuo masks possess their wearers and slaughter entire villages, and the River Lord demands living sacrifices as brides.
This is an age when martial arts flourish, yet it is also a chaotic era of demonic martial forces. The strong can shatter rocks and split mountains, but even they struggle against a wisp of resentment that has clung to an incense offering for a hundred years. Changes in the world’s spiritual energy have given rise to “spirit calamities.” Touch one, and an ordinary person goes mad; an animal exposed to one becomes a demon.
The Demon Patrol roams dangerous lands, wielding talisman orders and ringing bronze bells as it investigates the mystery of evil gods descending into the world. Ghost tamers travel alongside ghosts and monsters, lying in wait in the shadows. Bounty hunters who seek to defy fate explore secret realms and perilous places in pursuit of the supernatural.
The protagonist transmigrates as the orphan of an unknown bounty hunter, bearing a pair of heterochromatic eyes of mysterious origin. He travels across the world’s strange and haunted places, searching for the “trace of the beauty” that stirs his heart.
