Introduction to Spirit Medium: The Nine Netherworlds and Seas Chronicle
**Author: Yu Bi Cheng Mo**
### **[A thousand-year seal crumbles, and the human, immortal, and ghost realms face a shared death trap]**
A strange funeral in Baishan Town in Northeast China unveils bloody secrets from the primordial past.
Lin Jiuyuan, a spirit-medium disciple born with a “yin-yang baleful body,” has a Nine Netherworlds totem hidden in the lines of his left palm. He can communicate with the realms of the living and the dead, but the power shortens his life. While presiding over the funeral of the town chief’s family, he discovers a shamanic black jade embedded in the chest of the corpse inside the ice coffin. The claw marks inside the coffin are identical to the cracks in the “Dragon-Suppressing Stake” at the bottom of Heaven Lake on Changbai Mountain. Amid a sky full of paper money transformed into fire butterflies, three white-haired weasels wail at the funeral, revealing the blood pact between spirit-medium clans and ancient gods and demons.
### **[The Nine Prisons Map opens, and all creation becomes an offering]**
A bronze coffin for corpse liberation looted by the Japanese army during the puppet state of Manchukuo, a sacrificial pit containing ten thousand people beneath the Bohai Kingdom’s underground palace, a ghost-market mirage on the Songhua River that appears once every hundred years... Every strange incident points to fragments of the Nine Netherworlds and Seas Map. This is the chaotic womb membrane left behind when Pangu created the world, and every fragment seals primordial power capable of rewriting the laws of heaven and earth.
Forced to embark on a quest for the map, Lin Jiuyuan discovers that the so-called five great spirit-medium clans are merely the lingering souls of defeated gods and demons, clinging to life on the incense offerings of the human world. The Dragon-Locking Seal on his back is the “human-shaped Dragon-Suppressing Stake” forged a thousand years ago by shamanic priests from the ribs of Zhulong.
### **[Beyond the Book of Life and Death, there is no way back]**
- **Heirs of the Nine Netherworlds**: Descendants of Bohai shamans who have guarded the tombs for generations, using the brains of the living to ignite rhino
