Rosy Skull · Skin-Clad Heart-Devouring Fiend
A green-faced, fanged netherworld evil ghost that uses human blood to paint a breathtakingly beautiful human skin to wear, specializing in gouging out the hearts and livers of pleasure-seekers.
Classical Origins and the Grand Void Yin Evil
The most cautionary classic ghost from Pu Songling's writings. A vengeful spirit who died bearing a grievance or from overindulgence in carnal pleasures, grinding human fat and blood to paint in the dark morgue, pointing directly at humanity’s fatal blind spot: 'recognizing only the outer shell, but not the ghost’s heart.'
Mind Creates Appearances & Deadly Mutations
Perfect mimetic disguise, hallucinogenic and soul-entrancing fragrance, ripping open the chest to extract the heart and take the triple burner heart-fire essence.
Daoist Thunder Magic to Dissolve Evil & Illuminate Self-Nature
Affix a Taoist peachwood sword and a Celestial Master’s house-protecting talisman above the door lintel; a cultivator who sees through the truth of 'rosy cheeks and white bones' and breaks their obsessive attachment to physical appearance shall triumph without a fight.
Wear Pure Yang Artifacts to Purify Body and Mind
Through the YuanYu Destiny Beads (Xuanming Taiji model for warding off evil and petty people), Taoist Golden Light Mantra, and Jungian shadow questioning, transform negative energy into great wisdom.