In the autumn of the sixth year of Guangxu's reign, when Cao Yonggui appeared at the entrance of the village in rags, he was attending a funeral.
He disappeared for eighteen days, and the people in the village assumed that he had died in the war, and even the memorial tablet was placed in the ancestral hall.
No one noticed that there was a wound on his left arm that would not bleed, and no one knew that he had stood on the top of a mountain in Guizhou and witnessed the spectacle of the sky tearing apart.
It wasn't until three months later that the following "shadows" began to visit this peaceful village at night.
