I Have a Book of Demon Refining Inside Me

During a midsummer afternoon nap, Lin Yan, a young man from the modern world, fell into a dream and glimpsed a small town in Jiangnan in the first year of the Wanli era. Zhang Huai'an, the shopkeeper of a general store, kept a family heirloom close: an ancient book called Records of Demon Refining. Its pages chronicled one strange tale of demons after another, including the horrifying story of the Woman Sealed in a Wall, which jolted him awake. He thought it was nothing more than a bizarre dream, but after that, one strange occurrence after another began to plague Lin Yan. His body grew lighter by the day. He could leap into the air and, eventually, ride the wind, traveling to remote mountains where few had ever set foot to seek traces of ancient cultivators. The dreams never stopped, and two lives, one in the past and one in the present, quietly became entwined. Records of Demon Refining existed on pages in the Ming dynasty, while an ancient, unadorned demon-refining pot was about to surface in the modern world. Two artifacts separated by four hundred years began to resonate across the ages: one dream linking past and present, one book recording spirits and monsters, and one pot containing demons. The ghostly tales recorded in the book were not all legends invented by the ancients. Only when the pot and the book began to resonate did Lin Yan slowly discover that his repeated dreams and newfound powers had never been coincidences. He was both an observer from another age and someone destined to be swept into a secret demon-refining affair spanning time and space. He would face evil spirits, but also uncover the malice buried deep in human hearts beneath these strange tales.