[The Bloody Ancestral Temple Devours Reincarnation, and the Secret Technique of Western Hunan Reveals the Bloodline of the God-Slayer]
Every breath taken by Xiao Tian'ao, the corpse exorcist in western Hunan, resonates with the rotten stench coming from the ground of the ancestral hall in Yongchang Village. Ever since he witnessed his master bleeding to death from his seven orifices at the age of seven, the tortoise shell on his palms has been imprinted with prophecies of burning pain. Every night when the moon is full, a green-grey woman holding a baby will always appear in the mirror - that is the "mother" who never existed in his memory.
An accident allowed him to uncover the truth about a century-old family tree: Generations of the Yongchang Xiao family had sacrificed boys and girls using the Nine Yin Borrowing Yang Formation, just to nourish the reincarnation of the Rakshasa King sleeping in the coffin. And his bloodline is the only container for this god-killing contract that spans thousands of years.
When the ghost fire in Fengdu City illuminated the ruins of the ancestral hall, and the peach wood sword in Xiao Tianao's hand pierced the bronze ring, he discovered that the so-called "resistance to fate" was just a reincarnation trap carefully designed by the Rakshasa King. His sister's body was pressed heavily on his back, and the nine-headed corpse-turned-black snake was tearing at his flesh and blood, while every crack in the underground Nine Palaces and Bagua array was swallowing up his remaining sanity...
