Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, Volume 1

Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is a long supernatural suspense novel by the online author Wu Jiu. It was first serialized on 17K.com, runs to roughly a million Chinese characters, and has been published in installment e-book form since 2013 by Beijing Chinese Online Digital Publishing Co., Ltd. The story is narrated in the first person by college student Chen Hui: while visiting his hometown, he unintentionally interrupts his mother's meditation, enraging the malevolent deity worshipped in the family home. Just in time, he is rescued by a mysterious figure known as "Old Superstition," becomes his disciple, and begins learning the way of yin and yang and the drawing of talismans to ward off evil. He then returns to campus, helping classmates and strangers resolve all manner of eerie incidents, meeting companions such as Li Shanshan, Miao Hu, Liu Peng, Li Shigao, and Han Sifan as he travels from place to place, and gradually drawing closer to his family's ancestral graves and the family curse that "no male in the household lives past twenty-five." Drawing on traditional Chinese ghosts and monsters such as the hanged ghost, the drowned ghost, and the chang ghost, the book unfolds around "the ghost-catching chronicles of a modern yin-yang master," combining folk horror with the passionate energy of a young man's coming of age. This is Volume 1 of the series, containing the opening of the story, mainly relating Chen Hui's apprenticeship and his first steps into the way of yin and yang.