Introduction to the work
My name is Chen Jiu, and I was born with Qilin bones, immune to all evils.
When I was seven years old, the blind man who led the camel touched my face and said that I had a "strong destiny that is rare to see in a thousand years" and that I would have to embark on that road sooner or later. I don't believe in evil, but the unicorn jade pendant brought out from my mother's womb has never let me down.
Old Man Liu died, tears dripping on his face. More than a month later, the body crawled out of the coffin and lay in the family's food store. It was covered with gray hair and its canine teeth reached past the chin - it was called a hairy man.
The thousand-year-old mulberry tree at the entrance of the village fell down, and the blue and white snake that had lived in the tree hole all its life disappeared. The five-year-old iron egg was carried into a mass grave by something covered in scales. I went to look for the child, but found that the thing was harmless and the snake bowed its head to me.
A professor from the Provincial Institute of Archeology said that there is an ancient seal beneath our village. Hu Sanniang, who is wearing red, said that I have an "overwhelming spirit" in me. The tearful red beast is a beast left by the ancients.
What are they guarding? What are you afraid of coming out?
I have no idea. But I know——
This path was not the one I wanted to take, but this jade pendant chose it.
My name is Chen Jiu. I don't practice immortality or worship Buddha. If I encounter dirty things, I will kill them with a knife.
