Listen to Nothing

In the twenty-first century, psychic powers are no longer a legend. They are an objective phenomenon, recorded in official files and regulated by institutions. An old case involving a Taoist temple in Xingxiu County draws ordinary man Wang Qiubai into a secret of lunar body-refinement sealed away for a hundred years. Drilling disturbs the earth's energy veins, and the lingering consciousness of a dead cultivator echoes through the rock. An ancient cultivation mystery, involving a failed attempt to shed one's mortal shell, has resurfaced after a century. He was once an ordinary student rated “zero” by his psychic academy. A mysterious mark on his palm lets him hear the memories of the past lingering deep within the earth. On one side are criminal investigators who demand evidence; on the other are government psychic consultants wielding supernatural powers. Ancient Taoist arts collide with modern science. Two characters chiseled from an ancient stele, carvings on a stone platform in a secret chamber, a mysterious waterlogged scrap of cloth... Behind each piece of evidence lies a threshold that cultivators have spent their entire lives trying and failing to cross. Reincarnation may not mean being reborn into another life. Perhaps it is only an echo of information left behind in the cycles of the universe. When all the clues come together, he will finally knock on a door that does not exist.