The Green Lantern Does Not Cut the Dust

During the Dajing and Taiping Dynasties, monks took "cutting off the dust" as their first path: cutting off family ties, emotions, and desires, and cutting off the word "human" cleanly, so that the foundation of the path could be stable and ascend to immortality. For eight hundred years, everyone has been like this. Shen Du did not. He is the young owner of a paper-making shop in Xijiang County. He has no apprenticeship or spiritual cultivation. He only has steady hands, a calm heart, and a memory - finishing the unfinished words for the dead with his eyes, and retrieving the piece of heart that was torn out for the living by his name. Before his death, his father left behind an unfinished sentence, half a military talisman, and a secret that he had kept for twenty years and dared not go north. In order to ask for this second sentence, Shen Du carried a green lantern and went up the Yangtze River west to chase the three hundred people at the bottom of the cliff in the north twenty years ago who would rather die than die. The monk said that affection is a dirty thing that hinders spiritual practice. Shen Du said that those were all the evidence left by a living person.