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The mentor you thought was the real culprit who slaughtered your whole family. Who did you think was your best friend die at the hands of? What you think is the truth is always a lie. On the wedding night of the eldest son of the Nie Mansion in Lingshuang City, the bride tore off the groom's head and ate it up in front of the maids. When the Yamen arrived, the wedding room was filled with blood, but the two bodies were missing, leaving only an old blood stain with a strange color on the window sill. Shangguan Yun, the top disciple of Liubo Mountain, was ordered to go down the mountain and join forces with his junior brother, Lingshuang Prefect Han Bing, to investigate the case. He thought it was just an ordinary murder case that used ghosts and gods to hide from others, until he opened the sleeves of the "ghost-possessed" bride. A black snake-shaped brand was branded on her forearm. After that, a red-clothed water ghost with blue eyes and fangs appeared in the river; a headless female corpse was found in the dense forest on the outskirts of the city; the charred corpse in the White House... The deceased in each case carries a snake-shaped brand. And for everyone who has a brand, their birth dates are all yin year, yin month, and yin time. Shangguan Yun vaguely felt that someone was using living people to perform a blood sacrifice that spanned twenty years - and the hand behind the scenes was leading him astray again and again. When Han Bing, his most trusted junior brother, was nailed to death by an iron nail on the ancient tree of Yinshan Mountain, Shangguan Yun finally understood: from the moment he came down the mountain, he was already a pawn in someone else's chess game. And the man playing chess was standing behind him at the moment, his tone as gentle as ever-- "Ayun, I have been waiting for this day for twenty years as a teacher."