Guo Wei is an orphan with no name or surname in the Houbeigou mass graves in Qingshan County. He has survived by digging cold apples and cold steamed buns from the graves since he was a child. He couldn't see anyone, only vague gray things floating between the monuments. On the night of the winter solstice when he was ten years old, he broke into the ghost wall and wandered around all night. At dawn, he trampled an offering bowl in an unknown grave and released a wisp of a female ghost who had been trapped for sixty years - the former Celestial Master Su Qingxuan who had rebelled against the true lineage. Su Qingxuan lacked a living body to nourish his soul, while Guo Wei lacked a hot meal and a way to survive. The two were even, so she pinched her nose and accepted the apprentice who smelled like raw meat. Guo Wei was slow to learn Fu Lu, Bu Gang, Knife Jue, and Qi Qi, but he suffered more and more Yin Qi. Later, a thousand-year-old "faceless" monster crawled out of the ditch and ate the living people in the village. Su Qingxuan struggled to put his soul into a coffin and hid it for three days. Guo Wei climbed out of the grave and gritted his teeth to learn the forbidden method "Fengdu Carrying the Yin Sutra" which Su Qingxuan mentioned before his death but failed to practice until his death. After he finished the spell of exchanging life for spells and feeding flesh and blood to ghosts, and when Faceless came again to ask for help, Guo Wei stood at the entrance of the village holding a half-cut mahogany sword, with a whole ditch of wronged soul monuments behind him. A few years later, there was another little girl in Qingshan County who was squatting by the grave and eating dry food. She called him Master. In the grass in the distance, the new Celestial Master was lowering his head to wipe away the black blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
