Great Wizard's Cauldron

In a small southern town in the 1980s, laid-off worker Lin Jianmin ran a herbal medicine shop in "Health Alley". However, because he treated several patients with strange behaviors one after another, he was forced to reconnect with the taboo inheritance left by his grandfather - the "Wood Cauldron Notes" which recorded the "Thirteen Needles at the Gate of Ghosts" and a set of ancient needles called "Du'e". As the investigation deepens, the truth is gradually revealed: buried under the moat is a bronze sacrificial tripod related to the ancient Shu civilization. It has gathered thousands of years of drowning resentment and modern industrial pollution, forming a terrifying "evil spirit nest" with consciousness and the ability to spread its influence through the water system. Faced with the crisis that continues to spread, Lin Jianmin must use half-baked ancient acupuncture and handwriting secrets by this cursed water to appease or suppress the ancient evil sleeping deep in the mud at the bottom of the river, and protect the innocent lives shrouded in shadow in the alley...