The fire at Xujingguan destroyed the entire school. Lu Qingyan only took out half of the damaged demon hunting guide and a dust-purifying sword. From then on, he traveled around to hunt for demons.
Entering the city coincides with the Zhu Mansion weeping blood every night, human skin masks appear out of thin air, the servants are stripped of their entire faces for no reason, and Su Wanniang, the painter behind the scenes, is trapped in decades of old grudges of the Zhu family;
Transferring to Nuanhe Town, all the women in the town were asleep, and the white fox with its tail cut off had held a grudge for thirty years. Back then, a single word of gratitude trapped a whole city's lives;
I thought it was just evil demons in the world causing trouble, but I found that all evil demons are entangled with a ray of gray light - the ancient corpse ancestor Yin Xu, feeds on the sorrow and resentment of all living beings. The master who traced the matter back then went deep into Wangchuan Mountain in the southwest eighteen years ago, and there was no news again.
Peeling and painting skins, dreaming of fox fairies, and begging to be sealed with yellow skins block the road one after another. Along the way, he rescues A Wan, a girl with a silver needle who is chasing the murderer for her sister, and accepts Zhou Banxian, a fortune teller who can see through the warmth and coldness of the world and uses paper figures to transfer souls.
Everyone in the world knows that to slay demons, you should kill them all, but Lu Qingyan holds the illustrated book and sees clearly: demons are never born to do evil. Behind every piece of human skin and every trace of fox resentment is a life that has been let down.
It's easy to kill monsters, but it's hard to overcome grudges
