A young man from Xiahe Village, Wang Sanxi, is drawn into a century-old mystery by a broken piece of jade engraved with the Big Dipper. The small bronze coffin his mother clutched in her final moments turns out to be one of the nine lost coffins of the Exorcist Bureau. The birth dates of everyone in the village have long been carved into its lid. When the Li family is massacred on a stormy night, the blue-green scales left at the scene and the eagle-shaped talisman of the Strange Artifacts Sect herald the bloody start of a struggle between good and evil over the Road to the Yellow Springs.
The Strange Artifacts Sect is hunting down the bloodline of the Exorcist Bureau in order to resurrect their ancestor, the giant blue-scaled serpent. The pale golden birthmark on Huwa and the Big Dipper mark on Uncle Li's foot are both "living coffin" keys to opening the nine coffins. Wang Sanxi awakens as a Spirit Tamer, using the ancient exorcism coffins to form contracts with ghosts and refine strange artifacts. With the help of his elder brother, Wang Daniu, he repeatedly solves bizarre cases in places like Liuhe Town and Qingyun Academy, only to discover that his own birth date is inscribed at the very center of the nine coffins, in the "Soul-Guiding Star Position."
When the Strange Artifacts Sect gathers eight coffins and sacrifices Huwa in a blood pool in Yizhou Prefecture, the Road to the Yellow Springs, sealed a hundred years ago, is on the verge of opening. With the ninth coffin nail in hand, Wang Sanxi faces the ultimate choice: use himself as the key to seal the Yellow Springs. Is the nine-coffin exorcism a chance to defy fate, or the ultimate sacrifice of the Exorcist Bureau's bloodline? As the coffin lids open and close, eerie mist churns from the Yellow Springs, and a battle for life and death between the human and demon worlds slowly begins...
