Use himself as bait to feed the Yin Fiends and probe the netherworld;
Use his life as a lure to break the deadly trap and challenge the heavens!
In 2020, the baleful star returned to its place, and the seal was about to break.
Zhuge Yuan, a man with “abyss” carved into his name, walks in the shadows of the city. He can see the filth invisible to ordinary people and hear the resentful murmurs of the dead. This is no gift, but a “curse”: a “Living Sacrifice Mark” branded into his bones and soul from the moment he entered this world.
The clock turns back to 2005, to Gaoli Village outside Shen City in eastern Liaoning.
That should have been the day he was born, but instead it became the day his blood relatives were wiped out. A mysterious black hand tore through the ordinary village, using the life of his “birth mother” as a lure and the blood of the entire Zhuge clan as an offering to lay a bizarre formation over the whole village. A baby cried, blood-red light shot into the sky, and all fell silent. At the formation's center, the infant in his swaddling was the only “living” thing, as well as the formation's central “sacrifice”: a living key, carefully designed to awaken some indescribable horror.
Fortunately, his master, Li Feng, a deeply enigmatic “Yin-Yang Agent,” rescued him from a mountain of corpses and a sky-high tide of resentment. Li Feng used every last bit of his lifelong cultivation to forcibly seal away the terrifying power within Zhuge Yuan, born of the formation and present since birth, along with his overwhelming Yin Fiend fate, using the secret “Nine Apertures Fiend-Sealing Seal.” The seal was like a sword hanging over his head. It protected him for a time, but also marked his death date: when Zhuge Yuan's fate grew to the seal's limit, the forcibly suppressed power and curse would completely
