Tianjin, starting with unorthodox methods to achieve immortality

Chen Mo, a young man who has transmigrated into the body of a paper-craft shop heir with only one year left to live, struggles to survive on Funeral Street armed with a tattered manual of ghostly papercraft. His fate shifts when a moonlit treasure mirror awakens, revealing the hidden art of the Yin Specter—a forbidden technique that lets him refine evil spirits and absorb their essence to extend his life and grow stronger. From that moment, every place haunted by darkness becomes his hunting ground. He refines the Face-Stealing Ghost to gain a thousand disguises, devours the Ghost Serpent King to turn his arm into a dragon’s limb that reaches into the netherworld, and tames the Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva Fiend to command a domain of countless grasping palms. But as dormant folklore horrors stir back to life, and as eldritch tentacles from across the seas stretch toward the heart of China, Chen Mo realizes that the depths of this world are far more unfathomable than he ever imagined.