The Heavenly Master of Ghostly Visions

Before he turned eighteen, Lin Bai thought his grandfather was just a talkative old country bumpkin. Then, on the eve of the college entrance exam, seven black luxury cars rolled into the village in the dead of night. Nine masters of feng shui knelt before their dilapidated house, crying, "Master Lin, save us!" Only then did he learn that the grandfather who had taught him to read the stars and study the terrain was none other than the greatest master of physiognomy, known throughout the underworld as the "Living Yama."

As his grandfather lay dying, he pressed three keepsakes into Lin Bai's hands: half of a yellowed copy of The Celestial Secrets, a bronze compass engraved with the character for "mystery," and a yellowed marriage contract. That night, his grandfather dissolved into a wisp of smoke, leaving only one sentence drifting in the wind: "Xiao Bai, go to Jiangcheng. Three people are waiting for you there, and three people want you dead."

Lin Bai brought his grandfather's urn to Jiangcheng, only to discover that he was already at the center of a storm. Su Wanqing, the high school's most beautiful girl and his deskmate, had a century-old vengeful spirit coiled around her. Tang Xuewei, the new transfer student, was a descendant of a Nanyang curse master. And Qin Yurou, the gentle upperclassman he kept running into in the library, had secret files from Bureau 749 hidden behind her.

Worse still, the Twin Ghost Kings suppressed by his grandfather thirty years ago were about to break free. The descendants of the enemy family his grandfather had wiped out through divination had already cultivated themselves into an immortal corpse-shedding ascendant, impervious to death and destruction, and now it was slowly opening its eyes in the shadows...