With yin and yang out of balance and the Ruins Qi running rampant, undercurrents surge beneath the mundane world. Hidden from sight is an ancient, forbidden trade known to few: Soul Stitching.
For generations, the Lin family has passed down the secret art of Soul Stitching, using it to mend souls and restore spirits, sever baleful forces and break pacts, and cut apart sinister bonds between the living and the dead. Moving between the worlds of humans and ghosts, they have quietly upheld their ancestral rules for centuries. But their bloodline’s innate gift is the bane of otherworldly Ruins Fiends, making them a thorn in the side of the dark faction known as the Yinluo Pavilion. The family has been schemed against and suppressed for years. Their ancestors endured a lifetime of hiding from the world, only to meet tragic deaths in the end.
Overnight, the young Lin Yan is forced to shoulder his family’s fate. Caught in a deadly tangle of karmic debts for no apparent reason, he is hunted in a cage of his enemies, with powerful foes closing in on every side. He knows that foolish kindness cannot hold back the darkness, and the old rules cannot protect him. So he breaks free of his ancestral commandments, abandons the path of rigid conservatism, and ventures into the gray area between good and evil.
He absorbs wild spirits, commands mountain malice, and cultivates lost forbidden arts, unlocking the ultimate power of the Soul Stitching lineage. He and the unfathomable inspector of the Demon Suppression Bureau use each other as pawns, navigating court intrigue and conflicts among evil sects. He traverses perilous mountains and ancient caves, uncovers the origins of the Ruins Realm, and unravels the Yinluo Pavilion’s shocking plot, decades in the making.
From purging the vicious spirits that plague the human world, to resisting the remnants of an evil organization, and then facing the cataclysm of ruptures in the Ruins Realm and upheavals in heaven and earth, he confronts one threat after another: hidden currents in the mortal world, secret rivalries among sects, and dangers from beyond. The last Soul Stitcher wields his needle as a blade and binds souls with a pact. Between light and darkness, he settles the blood feud that has haunted two generations, guards the order of yin and yang, and shoulders the ultimate mission of saving all living beings.
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