The Corpse Retriever of the Underworld River

With a boat beneath my feet, I stand on the Nether River, retrieve corpses and return them, and lay the dead to rest. I am a corpse retriever on the Nether River, protecting the human world.

A young man’s soul transmigrated into the body of a three-year-old child who had died young. When he awoke, he was adrift on the Nether River, shrouded in darkness, as demons roared and evil spirits ran rampant.

Rescued by a corpse retriever from the Tomb of the Living Dead, he inherited his legacy and became a corpse retriever who guards the Nether River.

Awaken the spirits and gain the path of cultivation. There is a ghost inside me, beautiful as a flower.

With the Illustrated Compendium of a Hundred Ghosts, I acquire magical arts, retrieve sinister corpses, and quell evil spirits. In this world teeming with the bizarre, I’ll look after myself.

The darkness faded, and the Ruins of the Dead descended. Beneath the boundless wilderness lay a prison cut off from the world, where stone statues sheltered a tiny patch of land on which people clung to life.

But where had the moon in the night sky gone?

The strange beings of Fengdu came to the human world. The Ten Kings of Hell awoke one after another from their slumber, and the great terror lying dormant within the young man finally descended as well.