Fengdu Taoist

In the autumn of the 17th year of the Republic of China, Ma Ning carried a brass talisman box into the city gate of Fengdu and took over the abandoned 'Ning's Funeral Shop' that had been closed for half a year. Opposite the shop was the Yangtze River dock, bustling daily with warlord supplies and fleeing civilians. Ma Ning hung up a wooden sign reading 'Ghosts caught for sure, clear pricing,' and his first job was to clean the morgue for the dock gang—seven drowned river bandits' corpses sat up in the middle of the night, their nails growing three inches in an instant. He used a fire talisman to ignite the burial shrouds, shattered the corpses' spines with a lightning thunder fist, and collected five hundred silver dollars from Zhao Si. That night, under a new moon, the sound of suona horns drifted over the river, quietly signaling the beginning of the ghost soldiers' passage. — Description from novelcodex.org