The Dragon-Warding Coffin: Calamity of Ten Thousand Ley Lines
In Chenzhou, western Hunan, a corpse-driving inn is rocked by a grisly case known as the Weeping Corpse Bloodshed, while the appearance of the Dragon-Warding Coffin brings hordes of ghosts prowling through the night. Lao Jiu, the innkeeper, is drawn into the turmoil by his family's ancestral Qing Nang Manual. He joins forces with a mysterious knife-seller who accepts no payment upfront to fight the blood curse of the Wei River Dragon King, who has returned to life through a borrowed corpse. As the Mirror River Ghost Market, ley-line physicians, and island nation's onmyoji appear one after another, a struggle for control of the earth's ley lines begins, spanning China and the island nation.
Chinese feng shui arts, including the Nine Palaces Flying Stars, Qing Nang ley lines, and corpse-driving spirit summoning, clash head-on with the island nation's Onmyodo, including shikigami summoning, chrysanthemum curse seals, and forbidden Mirror Pool techniques. The Nine Stars Align inside the Dragon-Warding Coffin, the Ley Line Core deep in the Ghost Market, and the Chen family's Heavenly Compass of Kunlun all emerge in turn, revealing the Dragon Qi Symbiosis Pact the two peoples signed a century ago at the source of the Mirror River.
Lao Jiu grows from a naive innkeeper into a guardian of the ley lines. The knife-seller's blood feud over the massacre of his family exposes the ambitions of the island nation's ancient Chrysanthemum school, while the scale-shaped birthmark of the little girl A Qing is the very Key to Ten Thousand Ley Lines both sides are fighting over. The corpse-driving inn where bodies hang upside down, the Mirror River Ghost Market running red with blood, the ley-line altar where the living are sacrificed... Behind every strange and terrifying case lies an ultimate contest between ley-line tolerance and absolute unification.
When the island nation's onmyoji activate the Ten Thousand Ghosts Devour the Dragon Formation and China's ley lines teeter on the brink of collapse, Lao Jiu stands at the eye of Kunlun's dragon vein, clutching the Qing Nang Manual. The knife-seller's rusty blade cleaves the boundary between yin and yang at Mirror River, while A Qing's birthmark becomes the Seal of Symbiosis for Ten Thousand Ley Lines. This feng shui war spanning mountains and rivers will ultimately compose a legendary tale of protecting China's ley lines through rift tolerance and bloodline symbiosis.
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