Fantasy, healing, and ancient-style tales of the strange. A companion novel to popular author Qing Chen’s Records of Burning Rhinoceros Horns, this is the most adorable and amusing collection of healing stories about the supernatural in an ancient setting! Behind every medicinal ingredient lies the greatest sorrow or joy of human life. The Sea Market, the Guixu, the Peach Blossom Spring, the Yellow Springs... Scenes of wonder and eerie realms, strange spirits and human affairs of every kind. By the seaside, in Jade Rhinoceros Lane, there is an apothecary called Twelve Moments. Its proprietor is a young man surnamed Bai, whose origins and identity are unknown. At his side are two assistants: a wolf demon and a chi dragon. The many joys and sorrows of mortal life, the uncertainty of the six realms of reincarnation. The Sea Market on the Ghost Festival, when a hundred ghosts roam the night; the eye of the Guixu Sea, which devours the karma of all things; the tiny Peach Blossom Spring, no more than two feet across; and the uncanny market of boats on the Yellow Springs. Scenes of wonder and eerie realms, strange spirits and human affairs of every kind. Mr. Bai uses the apothecary’s bizarre and marvelous ingredients as bait, trading them for stories of the greatest sorrow and joy in the human world. The book is divided into four short stories: “The Sea Market,” “The Peach Blossom Spring,” “The Guixu,” and “The Yellow Springs.”
