Panguan: The Twelfth Gate
判官 (Panguan)
Mu Su Li (木苏里); art: St (interior), LINXIZHIYI (cover)
A soulless spirit guide who hungers for the miasma of the dead takes in a roommate whose aura is far too tempting.
- Format
- novel
- Status
- ongoing
- Volumes
- Novel · 1 vol
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Synopsis
Wen Shi is a panguan, a cultivator who escorts the dead on to their next lives. Reborn again and again without a soul, he craves the dark miasma that gathers around corpses. Then he lets Xie Wen move in: a supposedly failed panguan wrapped in miasma thicker than anything Wen Shi has met. The longer they share a roof, the more Xie Wen seems to know about a past Wen Shi cannot remember.
Good to know before you buy
- Next English release: Vol. 2, 8 Dec 2026 (Vol. 3, 13 Apr 2027).
- Also adapted: Chinese audio drama (MissEvan); same universe as Copper Coins and Three Hundred Years of Longing.
- 5 more titles from Mu Su Li on the shelf, listed below.
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English publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment.
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Is Panguan: The Twelfth Gate completed?
No. The English edition is ongoing.
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