A Folk Feng Shui Master’s Notebook: The City

My name is Chen Fan. I’m a delivery rider who had my wages withheld, got dumped, and was thrown out by my landlord...

On a stormy night, with nowhere to go and my suitcase in hand, I came across my master’s “family heirlooms”: a compass, some copper coins, and a book called Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master. As the saying goes, “First comes fate, then luck, then feng shui...” If Heaven wouldn’t give me a way forward, I’d make one myself.

Still in my delivery uniform, I set up a stall beneath an overpass, using Xuan Kong Flying Stars to judge fortune and misfortune and the Eight Gates of Dunjia to break minor hexes. By a stroke of luck, I uncovered the “White Tiger Biting the Blade” curse on Su Wanqing and wrecked Zhao Jiulong’s “Five Ghosts Carry Wealth” scheme.

I never expected that, while I was struggling just to put food on the table, I’d end up opening the Fate’s Favor Hall and gathering a crew around me: Wang Pangzi, our resident wisecracker; Guan Shihua, a hot-tempered junior sister and spirit medium; and Jianghu friends who were sometimes allies, sometimes rivals, like Liu Qingfeng of Mount Longhu.

A broken Heavenly Measure recognized me as its master, and I awakened the ability to sense baleful energy and hear it on the wind. From warding off evil in rundown homes to settling business feuds, I was drawn step by step into sect conflicts and battles over magical treasures. A mysterious invitation from the Nightwalkers, a Triad Society manhunt, sudden contact from the authorities... That was when I learned the “Heaven-Cursed Fate” hidden in my blood was bound to the safety of China’s dragon veins.

From a roadside stall beneath an overpass to repairing the nation’s dragon veins, from battles between wealthy clans to fighting foreign occult arts, every gust of wind concealed ill omens, and every scheme hid something sinister. In the end, I would climb the Fengshan altar on Mount Tai and make my life the heart of the formation, to protect the rebirth of China’s dragon veins!