Beyond the Pass: Black Earth Town of Yin and Yang

For three generations, the Lin family had been renowned spirit mediums, with the great-grandfather standing as the foremost "incense root"—the ultimate foundation of spiritual power—beyond the Pass. During the Republic of China era, he waged great wars against dark forces, vanquishing countless evil spirits and pacifying the hundred ghosts that plagued the northeastern wilderness. In the aftermath of those bloody campaigns, he chose to seal his altar, bind the immortals, and lay down an unbreakable ancestral edict: from that day forward, no descendant of the Lin family shall ever establish an altar, practice the art of spirit-mounting, or so much as touch the affairs of yin and yang—for all eternity.