Have you heard of The Lu Ban Book and the art of hostile magic?
Zhou An never imagined that an old house abandoned for ten years would become an abyss that swallowed his father.
The blue bricks were mottled, and the pomegranate tree had withered. While restoring the main hall, they uncovered a wooden wedge embedded deep in the wall, wrapped in dark red threads of blood. His usually composed father lost his soul at that very moment.
The art of hostile magic, a vicious curse passed down by word of mouth among carpenters, turned out to be the source of the family's tragedy.
To save his father, Zhou An sped off in search of his great-uncle, the only person who knew this craft.
Behind him, his father faced unknown dangers alone. Ahead lay a winding path leading into a mysterious past.
When his great-uncle revealed the truth behind the "Heart-Piercing Curse, Soul-Locking Doom that Ruins the Family," Zhou An understood: the thing he had to repair was not the old house, but a family destiny long since shattered and now beginning to bleed.
Is this the same world view as "The Art of Weary Victory" as the author said? Isn't it also related to Xu Dong and Xiaotian?
It looks good but has no ending. How did Amu get injured? Has Blackfoot been caught behind the pole? Who is the person who framed the protagonist's family? None of this was disclosed.
In traditional Chinese building customs, the beam-raising ceremony is a key step in building a house. Carpenters chant auspicious words loudly when raising the beams, which is also called Liang Shangwen. For example, the Shangliang text in the northern region is: The beam is like a dragon, winding upward. It doesn't move when it's in the air, waiting for its owner to hang red. Hanging red to the head of Kowloon, princes and nobles have emerged from generation to generation. The Jiangnan area is: Stepping up the stairs with your feet, picking fairy peaches from the fairy tree with your hands. Thousands of fairy peaches were collected, and the master's children and grandchildren wore golden hats. The Fujian and Guangdong regions have a hint of dialect: If the head of the beam is high, heroes will come from generation to generation; if the tail of the beam is low, every household will have money and rice. The sky above the beam will be full of stars, and the sky below will be peaceful. Wait wait wait...