After graduating from college, I returned to my hometown in Changbai Mountain to celebrate the New Year. I had a low-grade fever and nightmares every night.
In my dream, a thousand-year-old red fox said to me: It's time to renew the Lin Family Incense Root.
I didn't believe in ghosts and gods until my mother had a high fever and fell into coma. An old man in a black cotton-padded jacket squatted under an old locust tree in the village and grinned at me:
"Boy, you have the smell of incense on your body, you can't avoid it."
I was forced to establish a court and accepted five immortal families:
A thousand-year-old fox fairy is the leader of the palm hall, with a cold face and a vicious tongue, carrying a thousand-year blood feud;
A weasel spirit who runs errands and loves to get into trouble, but dares to risk his life to protect me if something goes wrong;
A white hedgehog spirit is supposed to save the suffering empress, and can cure all diseases, but she has a century-old hatred for people;
A black python fairy is the leader of the killings. He is taciturn and fierce, and believes in eradicating evil;
A gray mouse spirit was the general manager of food and grass, and he calculated carefully and left seventeen escape routes for himself.
In addition, my great-grandfather, who was the King of Monuments, was still holding the line for me under the altar table after his death decades ago.
They told me: If I don't establish a church, I won't survive this year.
After establishing the church, I am the only anchor point for the Lin family's fragrant roots, the human stake of the old contract thousands of years ago.
The black cousin Ma wants me dead, the ancient remnants want me to open the door, the old rules want to drain me dry.
All I have is a broken copper bar, a human body, and an offering table that I can't sit on.
Later they asked me: Why do you dare to go against the thousand-year old order?
I said - I don't smash down old walls, I build new roads under the walls.
Immortals do not bully others, and people do not bully immortals.
Merit and merit are shared, and cause and effect are shared.
This road has never been traveled before, but I decided to try it.
