Urban: With My Ancestral Dragon-Finding Compass, I Rule the Ghost Market of the Underworld

Lin Chuan is three months behind on rent when his landlord comes after him for the money: “The Lin family is extinct! Your parents died in that rundown old house!” His parents disappeared from the ancestral home when he was eight. Kicked out, he has no choice but to return to the old house that no one has dared touch in twenty years. His blood drips onto a black sandalwood box beneath the altar table, and the box opens. Inside lies a rusty ancestral Dragon-Seeking Ruler. Ding! The Dragon-Seeking Ruler is activated! Yin Virtue: 876! A flash of dark golden light, and the vengeful ghost on the landlord’s back appears before their eyes. The landlord scrambles away in terror. The Lin family isn’t a family of feng shui masters. They make the rules of the ghost market! At midnight, a funeral home night watchman rings a copper bell three times. The blue-brick wall cracks open, and white paper lanterns illuminate the ghost market’s stone-paved streets. The Everlasting Pawnshop reopens, with separate doors for yin and yang: by day, the ancestral home takes cases from the living; at midnight, the ghost market serves the dead. Meanwhile, Zhao Qian has been waiting in Shengshi Tower for twenty years. The Nine Fiends Formation still needs two more sacrifices: a descendant of the Lin family and a bloodline of the Sheng family. Perfect. The truth about his parents, the chains of karmic debt, and the secrets of the Reincarnation Well all point to the fifth basement level. Lin Chuan pushes open the pawnshop door. “Anyone who wants to shut it down can come do it themselves.” This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.