Dongyue Night Watchman

There is a village at the foot of Mount Tai called Shoyegou. There is a rule passed down from generation to generation in the village: every night at midnight, there must be a person keeping vigil in the ancestral hall. The lights cannot be extinguished and the incense cannot be cut off. When seventeen-year-old Chen Daisheng took over this rule, he thought it was just folk custom. Until the lights in the ancestral hall went out that night, he saw with his own eyes that the ancestral tablet cracked - what was sealed inside was not ashes, but a still beating heart. The village elder told him the truth: when Qin Shi Huang enshrined Mount Tai, he set seventy-two seals under the seventy-two peaks to suppress a crack leading to "nothingness." The Chen family has been a night watchman for generations, and what is enshrined in the ancestral hall is not the ancestors, but the sealed roster. Each tablet contains a demon. The steady light is the status light of the seal - if the light is on, the seal is stable. The lights go out and the demon appears. But tonight, seventy of the seventy-two lights went out. Chen Daisheng opened the family tree, and there was only one sentence written on it: "On the day when the Chen family died, Mount Tai collapsed." He picked up the rusty sword behind the door of the ancestral hall - eight words were engraved on the hilt: Dongyue vigil, no taboos. But the last page of the genealogy is empty, with only three words written on it: your name. Later he found out that he was not a descendant of the Chen family - he was the seventy-third demon.