Zhang Laoxi

In an era brimming with noise, where danger and opportunity coexist, the practice of martial arts, various folk customs, strange tales, taboos, imperial courts, and the world of martial artists abound. Among these are the grandmasters, magical duels, ghostly encounters, divinations, invoking the divine, ritual plays, esoteric Buddhism, and the pursuit of immortality. 
In this diverse and complex world, where the three teachings intermingle and all kinds of people abound, the sphere of mysticism is filled with folklores and bizarre stories. 
It's a tumultuous time, where danger and opportunity exist side by side. 
Striding with his saber, Li Yan is determined to dispel all evil and embrace a world free from any taboo!

The Blade-Wielding Legend

Later, even the ancestors and departed souls needed to be sent a gift.


Of course, what was sent wasn't real cotton clothes, but colorful outfits cut from paper, burned for their deceased relatives as a token of mourning.


Early in the morning, Fengyang County was bustling with people.


Residents young and old carried sacrificial offerings, holding paper-made cold clothes, leaving the city to burn paper and worship their ancestors on the nearby hills.


Important matters of the state, in war and in ritual.


No one dared to be careless about ancestral worship.


Those without money had to scrape enough together to buy some Fire Paper, fold it into clothes to burn, lest their deceased relatives shiver in the underworld.


Those with money put on an impressive display.


Chapter 108 Cold Clothes Festival_2