Crossing the Evil Spirits with Dark Yin Energy

On the eve of the Little New Year in 1982, eight-year-old Chen Chen was abandoned by his family in a mass graveyard in the Taihang Mountains because he was born under the fate of the Lone Star of Calamity.

As he lay dying in the snowy night, a disheveled old Daoist dragged him out of the black mist rising from a grave. "Kid, come with me. I'll teach you how to survive."

From then on, Chen Chen became the disciple of "Wu the Drunkard."

A mountain spirit crying through the night, a corpse fiend in an ancient well, a ghost wedding in the underworld... Strange incidents in desolate villages followed one after another. The old Daoist taught him to draw talismans and chant incantations, telling him, "You have a Profound Yin Spirit Body. All the ghosts covet you, but you're also born to ward off evil."

However, it wasn't until Daoists from Maoshan arrived that Chen Chen discovered his constitution was a forbidden secret the Daoist sects had sought for a hundred years. His seemingly deranged master had once been Maoshan's most dazzling genius.

The strange paths of the martial world led him to all kinds of horrors: a starving ghost aboard a train, a corpse keeper at a funeral home, witchcraft in Miao territory, and a blood jade in an ancient tomb... Through repeated brushes with death, Chen Chen gradually grew stronger.

"My fate isn't decided by Heaven." Facing a struggle over Daoist traditions, a hunt by heretical sects, and schemes by a family that raises ghosts, Chen Chen held a talisman and used himself as bait. "I'll walk my own path."

When he finally uncovered the ancient curse behind the Profound Yin Spirit Body and stood before the Eye of Guixu, he faced a final choice: purify his bloodline and become human, or accept the curse and turn into a half-ghost?

"I'll choose a third path." Chen Chen looked at his aging master, his gaze resolute.

From then on, the world lost a "Star of Calamity" and gained someone who walked the border between yin and yang:

A Profound Yin Spirit Guide.