Detective Tai Siyi: Ghost Valley

Time cuts like a knife, quietly leaving its mark on the first year of the Hongwu era. Rumors swirl through the martial world: the dreaded “Ghost Man Valley” is not a perilous gorge hidden somewhere on a map, but the name of a living person.

This man is unfathomable, a master of both strategy and martial arts. He chose to exile himself from the secular world. Though he has not a single disciple, he seems to possess an all-seeing eye that pierces the mysteries of the netherworld, taking in every shift in the realm beneath heaven as he silently watches the mortal world roll on.

Twenty years pass, bringing the wheel of time to the twenty-first year of the Hongwu era. At last, the long-secluded Ghost Man Valley breaks his solitude, making an exception to take two disciples: one named Wang Xiongfei, the other Taishi Yi.

Ghost Man Valley is a master of patience, able to bend without breaking. Faced with the prejudice and criticism of the world, he says nothing, harboring neither resentment nor regret. Yet beneath that silence, he uses methods bordering on cruelty to shape the two uncut gems into terrifying figures. One excels in letters, the other in arms, but neither is truly human anymore. They are monsters through and through.

The first novel in the Divine Detective Taishi Yi series!