It was the 3rd century BCE, China was under one of the biggest epidemics it had ever faced. It was the end of the year and like all other years, it was the time to carry out the great Nuo exorcism ceremony.

Demons were flying in the sky, carrying their spears and holding their bundles of the reed. They had redheads with pointy horns and draped black clothes. Ten thousand of them flew at once shooting bows of peach wood all around. It was raining angel blood, and wherever the blood touched, the infection spread-- infallibly killing strong and the weak.

Men with flaming torches ran to the castle, begging...