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On the day of the old house auction, Chen Mo stepped into the courtyard as the final bidder. The Crooked Neck Huai Tree had added another ring to its growth, and new carvings of the Seven Star Pattern adorned its bark. As he used his Peach Wood Sword to pry open the spiderweb in the tree hollow, a Qinghua Porcelain Medicine Bottle rolled out, with the label bearing the characters "Jia Shen" still seeping with Cinnabar.
"This house has a sinister aura," the Auctioneer said, wiping his sweat as he approached. "Last week while cleaning up, the incense burner on the offering table suddenly..." Before he could finish, a sound of shattering porcelain echoed from the main hall.
When Chen Mo rushed inside, he saw seven overturned oil lamps forming a circle, their oil spilling onto the blue bricks in the shape of the Big Dipper. Suddenly, his phone received a multimedia message from an unknown number. The photo depicted the Lin Family Ancestral Hall from fifteen years ago; on the offering table, the Memorial Portrait was not of Lin Qiuyu but of an elderly man dressed in a Dao Pao, with a gourd of Tong Ren Tang Medicinal Wine hanging at his waist and a Jade Ring on his right thumb.
As he zoomed in on the photo, he noticed that the Cinnabar Spot on the old man's neck perfectly aligned with the Yao Guang Star Position of the Seven Star Pattern. As night fell and darkness seeped through the window panes, Chen Mo discovered a hidden compartment in the study. Inside a purple Sandalwood Box lay a copy of the Seven Star Life Renewal Record, its title page stamped with a sunlit seal reading "Land God Shrine Collection."
When he turned to the page detailing the Corpse Puppet Resurrection Technique, a Yellow Talisman tucked within suddenly ignited spontaneously, its ashes forming a warning that read "Three-Quarter Hour of the Monkey" on the table surface. The old house's power system malfunctioned abruptly; ink spilled from an overturned inkstone seeped into the cracks of the floor tiles, creating a Bagua Diagram.
Moonlight filtered through the lattice window, illuminating the offering table in the main hall—three incense sticks in the burner had been lit without his notice, their blue smoke twisting into the shape of Lin Qiuyu. "Caution... Shen..." The smoke figure emitted a breathy sound; as Chen Mo turned around, he bumped into a Bogu Shelf.
After a porcelain jar shattered, thirty teeth wrapped in Hong Chou rolled out, each crown engraved with birth dates of Lin Clan Women. The last molar concealed a fragment of jade stained with blood. At midnight, a chilling wind burst open the wooden door to the west wing; Chen Mo's flashlight illuminated an inner wall cavity.
On a faded marriage certificate, instead of "Seven Star Master," the groom's name was written in gold powder as "Chen Mo." When he used his Peach Wood Sword to pierce through the paper surface, a Vermilion Talisman hidden within suddenly oozed Heimatsu, coalescing on the ground into a Reverse Seven Star Formation.
At that moment, his phone received an urgent notification from the Forensic Evidence Department: new clues had been detected from fragments of a Bagua Mirror salvaged years ago—the hidden layer on its back contained a birth date that matched Chen Mo's true date of birth before being adopted; it corresponded to "Jia Shen."
A blood moon suddenly broke through the clouds as all doors and windows of the old house closed automatically. Chen Mo heard rustling sounds from paper scraps among the branches of a Sophora Tree; a figure dressed in bridal attire was rapidly assembling something. As he dashed toward the backyard, nine streams of black smoke erupted from the well, forming into Seven Corpse Oil Lamps in midair.
"You are indeed the final focal point," a hoarse voice echoed from within the well. Chen Mo saw the decayed remains of his principal clinging to the well rope. "Jia Shen Year, July 15th... The Hour of the Rat..." Before he could finish speaking, water in the well began to boil violently as thirty skeletons surfaced; each pointed their ring fingers at Chen Mo's heart.
The Peach Wood Sword burned his palm with blisters shaped like constellations as Chen Mo tore off a red string around his neck. Within his late adoptive father's protective talisman lay half of a Jade Ring.
As the two halves of the finger ring rolled together on the ground, the bones in the well suddenly disassembled and reformed into a massive Seven Star Compass. The Paper Bride descended from the sky, her wedding gown sweeping across the center of the compass. Chen Mo saw his reflection split into seven shadowy figures on the compass, each dressed in attire from different eras. The oldest shadow raised a feng shui compass, its surface inscribed with the seal script "Change Fate at Shen Time."
As dawn broke with the crowing of roosters, the old house returned to silence. In the morning light, Chen Mo examined the evidence and discovered that the last page of the second volume of the Seven Star Life Renewal Record had been torn out. When he opened the case report, an additional line in blood was scrawled over the original "Resolved": "Seven days later, Three-Quarter Hour of the Monkey."
On the morning that the City Bureau reopened its investigation, Chen Mo received an anonymous package in his office. Wrapped in oiled paper was a bound book titled Seven Star Reincarnation Theory, and tucked inside was a piece of unburned Yellow Talisman. At the center of a diagram drawn in Cinnabar was a photo of him on duty at the police station yesterday.
On the day when the old house was finally auctioned off, Chen Mo returned to the courtyard as a folklore consultant. The incense burner on the offering table had fresh ashes added, and beside the seven-star carvings on the Crooked Neck Huai Tree were new scratches made by fingernails—judging by their length, they perfectly matched Lin Qiuyu's broken left ring finger.
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