Real Taoist power was never about escaping your life. It's about the life you already have.The old stories promise hidden mountains and secret masters. The truth is quieter — and closer. For a householder with a job, a family, bills, and a body that gets tired, the classic practices can feel like they belong to someone else's life. This book argues they belong to yours.Master Tian-Hao Chen lays out a complete ninety-day path through Taoist cultivation and practical magick, ...

She counted twenty-seven names.Her brother thanked his thesis advisor. His lab mates. The cafeteria lady who slipped him an extra scoop. The librarian who waited five minutes past closing. Even the print shop owner got thirteen whole characters.He did not thank her.I funded my orphan brother to a master's degree — and he thanked everyone but me.For twelve years, Lin Ya worked the assembly line, sold skewers at the night market, ate fifty-cent steamed buns so...

A complete twelve-week path from occult curiosity to a grounded daily ceremonial magick practice - no lodge, no elaborate temple, no blind belief required.You have read the books. You have six tabs open, four conflicting systems, and no idea where to actually begin. Every source seems written for someone with a temple room, a teacher, or absolute certainty you do not have.This book is the missing first step. Western Occultism and Ceremonial Magick in 12 Weeks takes you from...

In the mystical Taihang Mountains, where magic flows and powerful yao roam, Hongjun has grown up sheltered from the human world. A half-yao himself, he's never had reason to leave--until the mountain's ruler sends him on a dangerous mission: hide his true nature and join the Great Tang Department of Demonic Exorcism in Chang'an.Upon arriving in the bustling capital, Hongjun meets Li Jinglong, a luckless soldier with no spiritual power tasked with leading a team of extraordinary exorcists. ...

Yu Hao has always lived on the margins: poor, closeted, shunned by those around him. When a stolen watch inexplicably appears in his backpack, the accusation threatens his future and extinguishes what little hope he has left. Desperate, he turns to death as escape...only to awaken in a realm where dreams become battlefields.There, Yu Hao meets the General, a knight who drags him back from despair. Night after night, they fight through the figments of Yu Hao's unconscious mind, discovering ...

Multimillionaire director Zhang Yuwen has it all--fame, fortune, and a successful career. But what he really craves is to create a novel he can call true art. Fueled by this passion, he abandons the film industry to pursue writing full-time, only to hit an unexpected roadblock: his characters feel flat and inauthentic. The problem? Zhang Yuwen has spent most of his life as a loner with little real-world interactions.As a single gay man with a luxurious yet empty villa, Zhang Yuwen comes up...

Once, ancient China was brimming with magic...but three hundred years ago, the Spiritual Qi of the Heavens and Earth dried up in the Silence of All Magic. Hundreds of years with no spiritual qi have allowed resentment to build unchecked, and it's only a matter of time before calamity descends and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction. Once-powerful exorcists have done their best to preserve their legacy in the centuries since, but now only one remains: Chen Xing, now tasked with ...

For as long as he can remember, Duan Ling has been an unwanted child. Raised by his deceased mother's neglectful family, he's grown up battered and mistreated. But his life takes a fateful turn when a stranger named Lang Junxia arrives at the Duan estate, claiming to be sent by the father Duan Ling never knew he had.Whisked away to the capital of the Liao Empire, Duan Ling is thrust into a treacherous world of political intrigue and power struggles far beyond his comprehension. But Lang Ju...

Although the Department of Exorcism has successfully thwarted the fox yao's attempts to infiltrate the imperial examinations, Hongjun, Li Jinglong, and their companions are no closer to uncovering the identity of the yao king of Chang'an. Investigations stall until the group stumbles across a series of bloody murders in the capital.What appears to be a gruesome coincidence soon points to a larger plot as Hongjun and Li Jinglong discover evidence of yao involvement. Yet as the clues pile up...

Turmoil rocks the Han dynasty. After a peasant rebellion tears Zhou Yu's family apart, fate reunites the distraught young man with his childhood friend Sun Ce, heir to a powerful commander. In Sun Ce's unshakable resolve, Zhou Yu finds not only solace, but a vision of the future: a leader who can rise above the chaos and reshape their fractured land. Determined to help his friend achieve greatness, Zhou Yu pledges himself to Sun Ce.Through the unforgiving gauntlet of war, Zhou Yu helps Sun...

At sixty-two, Zhai Hong has three great ambitions in life:Run the most popular mahjong house in town.Live to be a hundred.And buy a 49,999-yuan miracle mattress that promises to fix every ache, pain and dodgy artery in her body.The first two seem achievable.The third is going to require a lot of mahjong customers.Then one of her regulars drops dead at the Red Dragon.And the police say he was poisoned.Suddenly Zhai Hong's belov...

Duan Ling and Wu Du make a desperate bid to break out of the Mongol siege at Luoyan, escorting Yelü Zongzhen, the emperor of Liao, to safety in Southern Chen. Riding with them is the captured Lang Junxia, whose loyalties remain as unreadable as ever. Is he Duan Ling's enemy, or is there some hidden purpose behind his betrayal? And if it came to it--could Duan Ling really bring himself to kill him?Meanwhile, the secret of Duan Ling's true identity grows harder to keep with each passing day....