The Zhang Family's Secret Tomb-Raiding Arts

Since ancient times, the people of the Zhang family have never sought to rule as emperors or kings. They have guarded the empire’s dragon veins and imperial tombs, creating the Dragon Vein Tomb Map. Whenever famine or chaos struck, they would offer sacrifices to Heaven and Earth and inform their ancestors, then take funerary treasures from the tombs to save the common people. Their clan leaders were hailed by their fellow tomb raiders as the foremost masters of tomb robbing.

During a year of famine, the Dragon Vein Tomb Map was stolen by accident. Zhang Ci, the foremost master, was forced to retire from the tomb-raiding world, and the Zhang family’s standing quickly declined. The tomb-raiding world descended into chaos as various factions sought the map and fought for the title of foremost master. The Zhang family became a target for everyone. With no other choice, its members entered tombs to raid them, suffering the first disastrous failure in their history of more than a thousand years. They suffered countless casualties and were gravely weakened, never to recover.

Twenty years later, the Dragon Vein Tomb Map resurfaced. Information about one imperial tomb after another leaked out, each concealing countless deadly dangers. A battle to protect tombs from raiders, spanning thousands of years, began, bringing to light a century-old secret hidden in the gaps of history.