[Skin can save you from misfortunes, human skin scriptures hide the secret of rebirth]
Ling Mo, the chief detective of Shadow Pavilion, was ordered to investigate the serial skinning cases in Jianghu and found that the skins of all the deceased had been made into the evil scriptures of the Rebirth Gate. Forced to cooperate with Su Wanye, the coroner of Yizhuang, the two found out at the murder scene that exuded the smell of corpses and herbs that the human skin tanning technique originated from the royal secret technique twenty years ago.
When Ling Mo's claustrophobia broke out in the darkroom filled with human skins, Su Wanye's bronze crane-billed tweezers uncovered an even more horrifying truth - the pores of each human skin were actually embossed with coordinates using ink ground from the ashes of the unjust deceased, forming a treasure map of the previous dynasty. However, Xing Baotou, who insists on "scientific handling of cases", measures the ladder to the top of power with the Luban ruler in his hand.
The muffled sound of a medicine pestle crushing a skull can be heard from behind the mute doctor's fanged mask, and blood oozes from the tattoo of the Thousand-Faced Buddha's reverse swastika under the candlelight. When Ling Mo's silver glove peeled off the last piece of human skin, revealing the face of his mother who disappeared when he was young, the runes on the scroll of the Purana suddenly began to squirm...
