I Refine Gu, Slay Ghosts, and Kill Gods at Bureau 749!

My name is Ye Jiu, and I’m studying soil science at Southwest University. It all began when Old Man Xi rushed off in the middle of the night carrying a railroad track. All he left behind was an old house in Qingshi Alley and three clay jars sealed with mud stamps. From then on, I was dragged kicking and screaming into the other side of the world. That day, a forum called “Yinlin” appeared on my phone. Meridian Opening, Sea Opening, Spirit Platform, Supernatural Powers, Dharma Form, Void Insight, Evil Suppression, Domain Lord... A completely different world opened up before me. Bureau 749 gave me a knife and a temporary consultant ID. Turns out the universe’s ultimate truth is “the rules of government employment.” Or rather, whether you open meridians, open seas, or master the Gu path, in the end you still have to be recruited, fill out forms, get filed, and receive your credentials. Outsiders? Just temps who haven’t been entered into the System yet. And what truly gives me a foothold in this world is what I refined with the help of the Gu God System: My first bonded Gu. The spirit cicada beats its wings, and the Dao’s essence begins to emerge. Vengeful spirits from the Republican era... A red banquet for a ghost marriage... The Bloodline Worm Mother needs the life force of ninety-nine living people to break out of its cocoon... An evil presence stirs beneath Qixing Hill... Evil spirits awaken in an ancient tomb in eastern Sichuan... The ancient kingdom of Yelang rises again... Beneath the city, undercurrents surge. And I wipe the blood from my Tang sword and stare into the deeper darkness. “The hunt begins.”