With remarkably restrained yet deeply heartfelt prose, this book rejects condescending pity and instead delves into the minute details of individual lives. It offers no grand historical narrative, only a level gaze and an empathy that comes from sharing others' feelings. Every soul recorded here once lived passionately, struggled, and loved in this world. Some may have been as lowly as blades of grass, others as brilliant as stars, but in the face of death, all are equal. The writing is like a patient archaeologist, carefully brushing away the dust of time. Through an extinguished lamp, an unsent letter, or a half-forgotten memory, it retrieves one by one the "souls" buried beneath the dust of history. These seemingly trivial fragments, woven together by the author, converge into a surging river of emotion that washes away the numbness and indifference in the reader's heart.
The moving power of Records of the Buried Souls also lies in its philosophical reflections on the essence of life. It explores timeless questions such as memory and forgetting, existence and nothingness, redemption and forgiveness. In the author's eyes, "burial" is not simply putting something in the ground and bringing it to an end. It is a solemn ritual, a final defense of the dignity of life. Death is not the end, but the beginning of another form of existence; to bury a soul is, in truth, to find a resting place for our own hearts. Every soul laid to rest is a part of us, a farewell to the years gone by and a revelation for the life yet to come.
After finishing this book, one cannot help feeling a chill at having faced the darkness, but there is even more relief and warmth. It reminds us that the value of life lies not only in its length, but also in its depth and warmth.
Three hundred years into the Yan Dynasty, Shen Guzhou, the envoy of the Qin Tianjian, calculated that the fate of the country was over, and that he was destined to commit the "eternal evil". In order to cut off the cause and effect, he dug a huge pit on the top of Mount Tai and sacrificed himself alive. Before filling the soil, he threw a small bronze coffin into the underground river at his feet, containing half a volume of the remaining soul. He didn't know that the bronze coffin drifted with the current and sank into the weak water of the netherworld, where it stayed for thousands of years on the banks of the Wangchuan River. The town is named "Bronze Coffin Water Town". There are no living people in the town, only the lonely ghosts who have been swallowed by Shen Guzhou's remnant soul in the past generations have turned into bronze statues and mourned day and night. Thousands of years have passed and the world has changed. Shen Guzhou was reborn through the body of a drowned wealthy businessman. But there are two souls living in this body: one is the secondary soul (Gu Changsheng) who is ignorant and greedy for pleasure; the other is the main soul (Shen Guzhou) who wakes up after sleeping for a thousand years and is as cold as ice. The secondary soul only thinks that this world is full of luxury and luxury, and just wants to be a dandy; but the main soul hears the banging of the copper coffin every midnight when he dreams back. The prosperity of the world is all rotten skin in his eyes. Those walking in human skin are not mortals, but the demon sons and grandsons who took the opportunity to escape into the human world when he was suppressed. Shen Guzhou held back and squandered his family wealth with the help of his deputy soul, but in fact he set up a "demon trap". He painted the array with cinnabar and used copper coins as bait, step by step, to lure the monsters disguised as princes, nobles, and even relatives of the emperor into the trap. The last battle took place in the mass graves on the outskirts of Beijing. The secondary soul screamed in terror, trying to stop the body from self-destructing. Shen Guzhou smiled indifferently, and his main soul completely took over the body. He tore open his own skin - it was not flesh and blood, but the human skin cage that had wrapped his soul for thousands of years. Countless monsters came from all directions, but were sucked into them by the "Soul Burial Record" he brought back from Wangchuan in his hand. He didn't kill them, he just beat them back to their original shape and threw them one by one into the shadow of the eighteen levels of hell, suffering from the mountains of swords and seas of fire. After the dust settled, the secondary soul trembled and asked: "Who are we...?" Shen Guzhou looked at the unfamiliar face in the mirror and said slowly: "I am the one who dug the hole. And you are the... First wronged soul that I brought out of hell when I returned." After that, he turned around and walked into the yellow sand in the sky. Behind him, an invisible copper coffin was making a dull echo in his footsteps. When the world sinks into eternal night and the corpses of gods cover the sky and the sun, who can still light an eternal lamp in the abyss of despair? Today I am introducing to you a masterpiece of fantasy that directly touches the depths of the soul - "The Burial of Souls". In this strange and dangerous alien continent, the story does not fall into the cliché of "fighting monsters and upgrading", but instead deeply penetrates the subtleties of human nature and the heaviness of fate. The protagonist was born in a young age, but he is burdened with injustice and blood feud that spans hundreds of years. He was not born invincible, but in the darkest moments when he was framed, surrounded and killed again and again, and forced into desperate situations, he awakened the remnant souls of his ancestors in the tombs of withered bones. Two generations of descendants met by fate across time and space. They walked side by side. Not only did they have to face the frame-up of the powerful in the world and the conspiracy of the Lingmen sect, but they also had to forge a life-and-death bond with those lonely ghosts who were haunted by resentment and had been wandering in the darkness for hundreds of years. In the book, there are not only the fierce martial arts like the "god beating drum style" that punches to the flesh and shatters the demon core, but also the extreme gentleness of using warm qi and blood to drive away evil spirits and smooth the meridians of innocent children in purgatory where corpses are everywhere. When the protagonist, at the critical moment of life and death, repels the evil spirits that invade the soul with his pure aura, or listens to the call that penetrates the void in the abyss of consciousness, the desire for "life" and the persistence of "righteousness" are enough to make every reader burst into tears. This is not only a passionate legend about slaying demons, but also a soul baptism about redemption and atonement. Carrying a lot of stigma and clearing away the eternal injustice, watch how the protagonist uses his mortal body to bury all the dead souls in the world and embark on a path that defies heaven and leads to death. If you are tired of the same cool articles and long to feel the ultimate compassion and unyielding passion in the text, then this book "The Burial of Souls" is definitely a treasure not to be missed on your bookshelf!