The Yellow River’s thousand-mile course conceals a vein of yin energy, while Yu the Great’s divine stele suppresses the Nine Hells.
My name is Chen Xiaohe. I was born with a pure-yang iron fate and the natural ability to see spirits. I’m the last corpse retriever on the banks of the Yellow River, and the seal-keeper of Qingwei Sect’s secret lineage.
My master, Old Ghost, seems like a down-and-out, scruffy old corpse retriever, but he is actually the former chief enforcer of Qingwei Sect. After his fellow disciples betrayed him in pursuit of the sect’s supreme treasures, the Yin Talisman Record of Mystic Suppression and the Mystic Yin Seal, he went into hiding amid the Yellow River’s muddy waves.
Our ancestral bronze corpse-hook can subdue water ghosts and evil yin energy, and bind the resentful souls of those who died violent deaths. A perpetually burning lamp filled with green oil can illuminate both worlds and reveal the true forms of evil spirits. I make my living retrieving corpses, practice Qingwei thunder arts, cultivate the yin arts of the Yellow River’s underwater palace, and combine them with ancient folk methods for suppressing evil. I wield talismans and incantations in one hand, and tread the celestial steps in the other. Every case has its method, every spell its tradition.
