“Report, Forensic Examiner Qin! A murder just occurred at the Paramount. The victim’s internal organs are completely gone, and the belly is stuffed with spirit money and bamboo strips. This defies every known principle of forensic science!”
“Something’s wrong, Doctor! The body… it stood up by itself! It’s even grown paper scales. There’s no scientific explanation for this!”
Just as everyone was losing hope,
Chief Chen, the mysterious head of the Investigation Bureau, strolled through the doors in a dark-patterned traditional robe.
Confronting the ferocious reanimated monster, Chen Xian calmly drew a heavy revolver engraved with Maoshan blood talismans.
“Bang!”
A torrent of pure-yang lightning burst from the muzzle, reducing the monster to ash in an instant.
In the deathly silence, Chen Xian blew the smoke from his barrel and turned to the chief inspector behind him, his voice cold:
“Tell Chairman Zhao of the Chamber of Commerce that this ‘Nine Heavens Thunder-Talisman Armor-Piercing Round’ cost five hundred silver dollars. If he doesn’t deliver the gold bars to my antique shop before dawn tomorrow, I’ll sweep up this ghost’s ashes and dump them all in his family’s ancestral grave.”
…
In the chaotic Republican era, amid the bustling foreign concessions, ghosts roamed the night.
The Longevity Cult sought to borrow lives through paper effigies, while warlords unearthed a cursed tomb and unleashed a century-old corpse king.
A feng shui compass in his left hand, a lightning-summoning revolver in his right.
See how the only true Celestial Master of the Maoshan sect in the modern age walks the fine line set by the rich and powerful, unravels the mysteries of this troubled era, and restores the dignity of the esoteric arts!
