The Lu Ban Book: A Side Story

When an old radio starts broadcasting the last words of the dead in the middle of the night, and an abandoned machine tool inexplicably comes to life and attacks people, Mo Huan, heir to the Maoshan craftsman's lineage, discovers that the lost Secret Manual of Lu Ban is turning century-old objects into spirits. The Evil Artifact Catalog, forged from hatred by an obsessed craftsman in the Republic of China era, has scattered across the world, drawing secret organizations from both East and West into a deadly struggle. Mo Huan has no choice but to use mortise-and-tenon joints as formations and a Lu Ban ruler as his sword, facing the ancient taboo that “all things possess spirits, and old things become sprites” in the ultimate feng shui formation at the Chengde Mountain Resort. This is a battle across eras between a craftsman's ingenuity and resentful objects born of obsession, and a clash of civilizations between the Chinese artisan spirit and foreign occult arts.