The description of the winter solstice in Volume Eight, Chapter Three was incorrect. The winter solstice should be the day when shadows are longest, but the original description said the opposite. This has now been corrected. Thank you to litin999 for pointing it out!
The instant the boy standing so boldly slipped that strange, vivid ring onto his finger, a furious wind swept through the dim, cloud-shrouded world before them, seeming to roar with wind and thunder. Moments later, when everyone gathered their scattered wits again, they found everything around them perfectly still, as though that terrifying howl had been nothing but an illusion.
After putting on the Ghost King Ring, Xing Yan turned back and discovered, to his astonishment, that the countless ghostly figures which had been baring their claws and fangs among the ruined houses had all fallen quiet. Every monster, whatever its shape, now lay prostrate, their heads and horns all pointing toward him.
For a moment, Xing Yan could make no sense of this. After a brief pause, realization dawned, and he settled on what he considered a reasonable explanation:
Ha! These ghosts must have seen their powerful reinforcement disappear and been frightened out of fighting us!
The more the Daoist hall master considered this thought, the more certain he became. He decided to seize this opportunity to explain matters to the now-quiet ghosts and demons, lest humans and ghosts fight again. A moment later, the villagers scattered amid the wreckage saw the boy, who seemed an incarnation of a heavenly god, straighten up, clear his throat, and call to the motionless ghosts kneeling in the distance:
"Honored spirits, please hear me out. In the past, these villagers relied on their ancestors' protection to oppress your Ghost Clan. They were certainly wrong. But today you