From the Start, Fifteen Years of Blacksmithing in Liaozhai

When a nation is on the brink of ruin, monsters are sure to appear. In the fourth year of Tianyou under the Tang dynasty, the dynasty, which should have fallen, somehow managed to last another two hundred years. But from then until the Song dynasty, demons ran rampant and the world descended into chaos. Qin Bai, who came from a time of turmoil, could acquire all sorts of supernatural abilities by forging metal, fishing, cooking, embroidering, practicing medicine, and more. He also cultivated bizarre arts such as paper effigies, corpse-driving, talismans, and gu worms... Then he lived through one familiar yet eerie tale after another: the Banqiao Inn, A Chinese Ghost Story, Painted Skin, the River God, Green Snake, the Immortal in the Painting, Conquering the Demons on the Journey to the West...