I Use Feng Shui and Physiognomy to Crush Bizarre Murder Cases

Lin Xu was born into a feng shui family with a century-old legacy, but his family’s ancestral rule, “Never use the art lightly,” has left him destitute. He scrapes by telling fortunes at a stall in the old neighborhood, enduring the scornful looks of passersby. Then an inexplicable case of a corpse rising from the dead at a funeral home lands at his door. The police are helpless, and a so-called famous master nearly gets the victim’s entire family killed. Forced to act, Lin Xu uses nothing but an ancient coin and a bowl of water to subdue the corpse demon and reveal that the deceased was killed by a curse. He becomes famous overnight.

After that, bizarre cases keep piling up: a Republican-era radio that plays opera by itself in the middle of the night, an empty house whose door always knocks at midnight, a haunted house that gives the entire apartment building the same nightmare... Behind every eerie scene lie traces of feng shui formations and black magic. With his family’s treasured Book of Earth’s Pivot and yin-yang eyes that can see qi, Lin Xu follows the clues, dispelling evil and averting disaster. He defeats the “qigong master” who trades on his reputation and exposes the “traditional culture fraud” who thrives on mystification, making a name for himself in the field.

As the investigation deepens, Lin Xu discovers that all the cases seem to point toward a secret organization called the Nine Hells. Its members worship an ancient evil god and seek to throw the world into chaos through secret feng shui arts. And Lin Xu himself has inherited the legacy of the Nine Hells’ thousand-year-old enemy. From cracking deadly feng shui formations to tracking down missing guardian artifacts, from working alone to building his own team, Lin Xu now faces more than evil spirits and deadly curses. He stands on the front lines of an ancient war between good and evil, one that will determine the fate of the world.