Yellow River Corpse Diver: I Suppress Evil Spirits with My Vital Energy

In the final years of the Great Jing dynasty, the balance between heaven and earth collapses, and yin floods into yang. The Yellow River becomes a natural passage between the underworld and the world of the living. Above the water, ordinary people make their living through shipping and fishing; beneath it lies a secret world where sinister spirits gather and evil gods whisper. Villages along the river have long practiced “river worship,” and corpse retrievers are “ferrymen” who travel between the worlds of yin and yang. They must recover the bodies of the drowned and send their souls home, as well as suppress the evil spirits that crawl up from the Yin River and protect the people along its banks.

Rumor has it that deep beneath the Yellow River lies the “source of the Yin River,” which holds the lingering souls of ancient evil gods. As the imbalance between yin and yang grows worse, their power stirs, and ever more bizarre floating corpses and monstrous spirits spread through the river’s tributaries, invading the world of the living. The corpse retrievers, Daoist priests, and wu nuo performers along the banks have become the last line of defense against these sinister forces. Of them all, corpse retrievers, who have spent years in contact with such spirits, know the most direct and hard-hitting ways to suppress evil.