Chronicles of the Republic of China: Shadow Puppet Play

To carve shadow puppets, you need to choose three yin skins, to carve ghosts and gods, you have to overturn the yin and yang, to pull the soul's sinews and bones, and to open the eyes with a dot knife - the living shadows raised by my grandfather using the forbidden technique of "Lu Ban Shu" ended up causing great trouble. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, the Chen family had a paulownia wood box, which contained the secret play of "Five Ghosts" and also locked up the truth behind the disappearance of their grandfather. A hundred years later, holding half of my vaginal skin, I was forced into the Kunlun Death Valley by the gangster Zi Bai. Here lightning strikes the living people and turns them into scorched pillars, shadows move backwards to guide the way, and even the sun is a deceiving mirage. Encountered by bandits in the desert, surrounded by wolves late at night, there is a phantom pretending to be a companion hidden in the dead trees, and its outline is exactly the same as the shadow puppet carved by my grandfather. Master Bai wants to reveal his shadow and ask questions about yin and yang, and I want to find yin materials to uncover the mystery of my grandfather. But this journey of searching for skin is full of dangers at every step and conspiracies everywhere. It turns out that the shadow puppets are not a play, but a formation that seduces the soul; the shadow is not a shadow, but an evil spirit that threatens life. The rules of the Chen family class: no forbidden arts, no dirty tricks. But now that the living shadow has awakened and the earth's veins are in chaos, I can only hold the carving knife tightly, use skin to calm the shadow, and use blood to restore the soul - after all, what is hidden deep in the eye of the shadow is not only the shadow material for shadow making, but also the curse that my Chen family has carried for generations.