According to folk belief, fortune-tellers and physiognomists are doomed to suffer the “Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies.” Li Qingchi, the last heir of the Ma Yi School of physiognomy, was born lacking in fate and will not live past the age of twenty-four. To defy fate, he sets out into this strange and wondrous real world with a worn copy of the Book of Changes on Physiognomy and a rusty yin-yang Bagua mirror left behind by his grandfather.
From the eerie “ghost marriage” and the perilous “Hundred Tigers Charging Through the Hall” formation to the “Nine Dragons Pinning Down a Corpse” hidden deep in the mountains, Li Qingchi reads people’s fortunes and misfortunes with unerring certainty and uses secret feng shui arts to unravel ancient mysteries. Powerful officials and wealthy nobles seek his guidance...
But as his destiny is gradually made whole, he discovers that someone has set an earth-shattering deadly trap in the feng shui of the dragon veins running through all of China. And the one who laid it is none other than his grandfather, who disappeared many years ago...
