When a bronze compass shatters the barriers of time and space, Gu Chen plunges into a modern rural village carrying the secret arts of tomb raiding passed down for a thousand years.
A cornfield where corpse spots appear, an ancient well where time runs backward, and a cluster of blank steles that materializes at midnight: behind the chaos of cause and effect lies a shocking plan to reverse life and death.
Archaeology prodigy Xue Yao uses a spectrometer to decipher a tomb map, Miao heir Wen Yue cuts down baleful spirits with twin blades, and the Taoist girl Ji Ling kindles talismanic flames at her fingertips. Yet every time Gu Chen invokes the secret arts, blood vessels like burning threads spread across his retinas.
A con artist’s Five Ghosts Carry Wealth formation is devouring the entire village. Before he goes completely blind, he must uncover the true price of his journey through time and space…
