The Eerie Immortal: Beginning with Esoteric Arts

In the Zhaohua dynasty, where pre-Qin occult arts flourished, the Imperial Astronomical Bureau discovers inexplicable deviations in the movements of the stars. After observing the heavens one night, an old occultist digs out his own eyes and seals them inside a jade pot. “Do not look. Do not know. Do not speak.” On the night the young Astronomer Royal takes possession of the pot, he discovers that the shadows of everyone in the city have begun to grow against the moonlight. And beneath the palace walls, something scrapes its fingernails against the inside of an ancient sacrificial vessel...