Tales of the Uncanny in Republican-Era China: The Human World

## I Light the Sky Lanterns in a Strange World

> Li Xinnian transmigrates to a strange world of cultivation and is sold into the Sky Lantern Bureau, where eerie beings run rampant, from the very start.

> He thinks lighting a soul lantern means certain death, but unexpectedly awakens a modern way of thinking that lets him solve impossible problems.

> While others burn through their lives lighting lanterns, he levels up at a furious pace by solving mysteries and cracking cases. Everyone in the Sky Lantern Bureau is left dumbfounded.

> Then one day, he lights the ninth lantern himself. In the depths of the dark night, all the demons fall silent: “We welcome the ancestor back to his rightful place!”

> Li Xinnian: “Wait, who am I, exactly?”