血夜行

During the warlord-torn years of the Republic of China

a series of strange unsolved cases breaks out across Xiangxi

throwing everyone into panic

every household keeps their doors and windows shut tight

no one dares go out at night

and it happens just before the Chinese Ghost Festival

the villagers speak of spirits and demons

rumors spread everywhere.

Some say

the gates of the underworld have opened

homeless wandering souls are possessing the living

to vent their resentment.

Shopkeeper Liu.

Old Mo.

Why are the lamps not lit?

The Ghost Festival is almost here.

We should deliver it sooner.

What are you two eating?

I am talking to you!

Old Mo.

Who the hell are you?

You picked the wrong man.

No one escapes my gun.

Ah!

Damn it!

Go to Hell!

Go to Hell!

Go!

Let go of me!

Let go of me!

Ah!

Did you hear that?

That ghostly howl from the back mountain last night.

Mm.

That definitely wasn't a human voice.

My grandfather says.

We need to prepare offerings for the yin guests.

Then they won't come inside and eat people.

Don't talk nonsense.

Who's that woman?

Judging by how she's dressed...

Probably some officer's new concubine.

Another old ox eating tender grass.

Come on, let's go.

I am sorry.

It is over.

You broke the spirits' gold-and-silver rice.

When they devour the three souls, calamity begins.

Such fragrant blood.

Such tender flesh.

On the night of the Ghost Festival

the blood moon will rise

you will surely die by

the fires of hell.

Go away.

You will die in the fires of hell.

You.

You die in the fires of hell.

You all.

All of you will die in the fires of hell.

The Great Way begins in the dark origin

boundless grace descends from the Upper Pure Realm

all evils are swept away.

Should any lesser demon

dare appear before this rite

the Heavenly-cleaving axe shall descend

severing the fivefold ghostly forms.

By the blazing blood of the Flame Emperor

by the Northern Dipper that burns the bones

let death's radiance shatter flesh and scatter remains.

By the Heavenly Marshal's decree,

let all unclean kinds be extinguished.

With one stike of the divine blade

all demons

collapse on their own

lesser demon, reveal yourself.

By urgent command, as the law decrees.

Stop!

Grandfather.

Grandfather.

Grandfather.

You cannot die

I am back

I am back.

Yunman...

Do not cry

I am all right.

No manners.

What are you doing?

Father.

What exactly happened to Grandfather?

Get out of there!

You're interfering with the Taoist master's healing ritual.

Master Kui.

Let us continue.

The lessor demons have run off.

Master Kui.

You.

Master Kui.

Master Kui.

Please wait for me.

Please let me explain.

Master Kui.

Brother.

What happened to Grandfather?

If you are not feeling well, we can see a doctor.

Why bother with all this?

Honestly.

Now that you are back.

I already feel much better.

What is this?

This can prolong life

a divine jade that clears the mind and preserves beauty

I picked a good one

and kept it for you.

I was thinking

for when you got married.

So you wrote the letter to ask me back

just for this?

A letter?

Yes.

You wrote to me last week

as if it were a final farewell.

I

I never wrote any letter.

Who is that woman?

Her?

She is my third daughter.

Yunman.

Her mother passed away too early.

This child

has had a strange temper since childhood

and never got along with her two brothers.

When she was eight.

I had a friend

who had no child of his own

so I sent her to Shanghai.

We.

Isn't it all for the children?

Well...

Master Kui, you...

You have children and a wife too, don't you?

Mother.

I am back.

No one in this family welcomes you.

Who knows who else you will kill.

Go back to your great Shanghai.

That bastard.

Chief.

Chief.

Why the panic?

This is bad.

What happened?

Young Master An...

Huaifu.

What happened to Huaifu?

He.

He is dead.

Ah!

Impossible.

With his combat skills

who could beat him?

Why would I lie to you?

Come on, I'll take you there.

Let's go, let's go.

Master Kui.

Let's go take a look.

You should come too.

Huaifu.

My son.

How did you end up like this?

How could this happen?

Tell me.

Who did this?

I do not know.

He was bitten to death.

To be exact

he was bitten to death by a dead man.

Ah!

A dead man.

A dead man.

You.

Demons.

It must be the demons.

How can a dead man bite someone to death?

We should report this to the authorities.

The guard unit has gone to war with the old general.

There is no one left.

They cannot handle this.

Even if they came, it would be useless.

I heard

around the Ghost Festival

homeless wandering spirits

will

possess corpses to harm people.

After a person dies

corpse drivers wash the body with boiled tulip water

washing the entire corpse

then

drying it out