The Cinnabar Ghost Tomb

The high-IQ criminal Lu Jiuqing possesses the recipe for a rare alchemical art capable of resisting the Qin. The military secretly escorts him to the archaeological site of the "Cinnabar Project." Caught in a deadly sandstorm, he and the archaeological team accidentally plunge into an underground maze built jointly by royal clans during the Warring States period: the Cinnabar Mausoleum. Modeled on the Classic of Mountains and Seas, this tomb seals away the "Cinnabar Blood Curse," which can twist space and time. When the modern archaeological team encounters the remains of the "Red Axe Army," a royal clan of tomb raiders from two thousand years ago, beside an underground river, a deadly race to solve the mysteries begins. Pressed on all sides by ancient tomb mechanisms and the corrupting Blood Curse, Lu Jiuqing must join forces with a blind archaeology professor, a mechanical prodigy, and a former special forces guide to uncover the ultimate secret of the Cinnabar Mausoleum: "the Eight Meridians Returning to the Origin." What the tomb raiders don't know is that they have long been pawns in a thousand-year plot devised by the resentful spirits of the imperial harem...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.