Yin Qi: The Remnant Scroll of Muye

《Yin Qi: The Remnant Scroll of Muye》 — A folk supernatural adventure story independent of the typical "Mojin" sequel tropes. 📖 Synopsis: On the old floodplain where the Yellow River once changed course, there exists a trade called "Scale Balancers"—those who settle accounts for "craftsmen" who have robbed ancient tombs and feel guilty. They ask not about the whereabouts of the artifacts, but only accept a pound of yellow earth and a three-inch yin contract, erasing the "debts owed to the underworld" from their ledgers. The young Gou Ya is the last Scale Balancer in the Muye region. Blind in his left eye from birth, his right eye can see the color of the last breath of the dying. Before his death, his master entrusted him with half a remnant scroll, the first page bearing only one line: "In the Battle of Muye, the defeated are not crowned kings, but buried." In the spring of 1927, the Yuni River ran dry, and the riverbed cracked open, revealing a "mirror tomb"—with inscriptions facing downward, coffins facing upward, and all burial goods existing in "mirror" form: shoes of the living, rice of the dead, and breathing terracotta figures. Gou Ya is sought out by three "guests" with hidden motives: - Ma Sanniang, the last descendant of the Ma family tomb raiders who once "surveyed mountains and fixed points," her family now ruined, her left arm covered in curse-like red lines; - Xiao Deng, apprentice of a honeycomb craftsman, skilled in mechanisms, but hunted by his own sect for learning forbidden arts; - — Description from novelcodex.org