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The books did not only parade ghosts and ghouls, but all manner of monsters also took to the stage. They also teemed with intrigue among human states, feuds between Daoist sects, and the secret history of deals and betrayals between governments and the Dao. The cruelty of immortals and monsters, the pettiness of the human heart, the barbarity of the age, and the tangles of karma all stood naked within the books.
The books even touched on “gods,” hinting that although they never showed themselves, their influence on the mortal realm was decisive. The lives of people like Zhong Shengguang, Hong Xiangqian, Nian Songyu, and Sun Fuping all seemed to serve as case studies for that claim.
The deeper He Lingchuan read, the more he felt that once you stripped away the strange lights and colors, the ground tone of the books was a single field of gray-black. The more one pondered it, the more unsettling it became.
Another idea appeared again and again in the pages: the revival of spirit qi.
The author argued that by the Middle Era, the spirit qi of heaven and earth should already have begun to return, yet for some reason, it did not. “Some reason,” the author admitted, and then...
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