Chen Fan is an ordinary doctor who runs a stall in a shantytown, yet at night he can dream of fragments of the future. Just as his rent is about to double, he finds half of a black jade pendant engraved with the character for “shadow” in the ruins of a demolition site. From then on, he is drawn into a feud spanning three centuries. The Shadow Pavilion forges fiendish objects from human desires, and his father was the key figure in the fight against the Pavilion thirty years ago.
Is it just an illusion that the delivery guy can fly? No, he is a puppet controlled by a Shadow Fiend. An old phone that glows contains a Rebirth Mantra, but it is being used to harvest living souls. The seemingly kind old neighbor lady hides a token of the Shadow Pavilion beneath her sleeve... Armed with the “Evil-Quelling Seal,” which can suppress evil spirits, Chen Fan deals with his landlord's demands for rent while unraveling the mysteries his father left behind. Then he discovers that his greatest enemy is the obsession lurking in his own shadow.
From the forget-worry grass of Changbai Mountain to the sea fiends of Wanghai Town, from the ghostly figures in an abandoned theater to the remnants of the Shadow Pavilion deep in the Qinling Mountains, Chen Fan meets all kinds of people: Shen Mo, controlled by the Shadow Pavilion yet yearning for the light; Lin Qingxue, an heir to the righteous Qingyun Sect; and Third Grandpa, who devotes the rest of his life to protecting his memories... They teach him that good and evil have never been determined by magic, but by the human heart.
When the Shadow Lord's remnant soul hides inside the Mirror of Reincarnation, and Shen Mo becomes light to protect the mortal world, Chen Fan finally understands: the most powerful Evil-Quelling Seal is the warmth and bustle of life in the shantytown; the most effective soul-awakening herb is the kindness of ordinary people. And the white flowers planted across the lands north and south are proving that even in darkness, one can turn toward the light and bloom with fragrance across the world.
