On the day yin and yang are turned upside down, will the dice reveal a path to survival, or a deeper hell?
The ancient bell of Yanxia Temple tolls by itself on a night of blood moons. A rift in the yang membrane leaks gray mist that swallows the city's neon lights. Yao Hanlin, a destitute Taoist priest who can cultivate from a fragment of the Yin Talisman Scripture, is dragged into a battle for survival spanning the mortal world and the underworld.
When he accidentally triggers the “Diceway Otherworld: The Chessboard of Heaven and Earth,” every tumbling die rewrites the rules. A compass for the dead unearthed from a grave conceals evidence of the Lu family's laboratory crimes. A little girl who drags a coffin with iron chains shares his bloodline, and the vengeful spirits who died because of him have long since become the eerie fuel of flesh and blood in the rifts of the yang membrane.
The Taoist temple transforms into a thousand-armed ghost mother, and the statue of the former Sacred Lord opens its eyes of chaos. The elite of the Xuantong Bureau become cannon fodder in the gray mist. Clutching the Thirteen Volumes of the Yin Talisman, Yao Hanlin looks around in bewilderment, only to find the whole world against him. Every victory in a Diceway wager tears open a new abyss in the real world...
This is the cruelest ledger of yin and yang:
Save one person, and lose three inches of the heart of your lifespan.
Kill one ghost, and lose seven-tenths of your humanity.
Meanwhile, the Lu Group, hiding in Luocheng's City God Temple, waits to harvest the last share of “merit to mend the heavens”
using the souls of all living beings to rekindle the “corpse-liberation immortal calamity” sealed beneath the Ruins of Return by the Sacred Lord of Heaven and Earth.
When the dice roll into the seventh layer of the eerie realm,
every path to survival is a carefully woven sacrificial trap.
