Starting in Uncle Jiu's World

“Red cord, ink compass, rooster blood; yellow talismans and peachwood ward off evil.” When a boy born with a black coffin-shaped birthmark became a disciple of Maoshan, he took up the mantle of its shamanic and gu-worm lineage. And so the tale of Taoist arts and gu magic seemed to begin with a knock on the door of the Ren Family Town funeral home: “Martial Uncle, I'm here.”