Stars hang over the plains, illuminating yin and yang; good and evil are always weighed in the balance.
Do not say the netherworld has no justice. I urge you to do good and avoid bringing calamity upon yourself.
Black Summoning is an ancient shamanic art for those who walk between yin and yang.
Ordinary mages and sorcerers mostly worship spirits, hoping they will show mercy, offer protection and blessings, and ward off disaster.
Those who learn Black Summoning stand as equals to the spirits.
They can summon them to work together.
They can also kill them to eliminate evil.
In the snowstorms of eastern Inner Mongolia in the year Wushen (1968), Li Shiba was born with red eyes and branded with the fate of a “doomed lone star.” His father died when he was born, his mother when he was two, and the whole village treated him like a bringer of bad luck and avoided him.
He was the sole inheritor of the folk art of Black Summoning. He did not worship spirits to beg for blessings; he stood as their equal, cooperating with them and borrowing their strength when they were in accord, or drawing his knife to slay evil spirits when they turned against him.
When he was ten, a neighboring hunter brought back a vengeful ghost. It knocked on his window in the middle of the night and appeared in his dreams, pleading for its wrongful death to be avenged.
No one believed the child's words. Instead, the vengeful spirit latched onto him, leaving him burning with fever and close to death. Fortunately, a Black Summoner came to his rescue...
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