The Ninefold Netherbone Slip: I Began Cultivating Corpse Alchemy in Xiangxi to Achieve Immortality

Lu Chenzhou was born into the Guanshan Liao and is cursed by a thousand-year-old affliction. His people suffered a backlash after guarding the tomb of the ancient God of War, Xuankui. The men of the clan cannot live past forty, and the curse can only be broken by gathering three pieces of Xuankui’s Battle Bone to remake their bloodline. While escorting an unmarked black coffin to Phoenix City, Lu Chenzhou witnesses the corpse inside transform into a White Fiend on a blood-moon night, driving the villagers mad with corpse poison. Half of a bronze bone slip in the corpse’s hand bears the inscription, “Xuankui is buried at Dragon Eye.” When Lu triggers an ancestral talisman, he transmigrates to the Republic of China era, where he encounters Qingshan Ke, the last heir of the Guanshan Liao, and uncovers the truth behind his family’s curse.

To suppress Xuankui, an ancient emperor established the Mausoleum Guard Bureau and slaughtered the Guanshan Liao. The two factions have battled for a thousand years, and in modern times the Bureau has become a multinational cultural relics conglomerate hunting Lu down. Centered on the curse and the mystery of immortality surrounding Lu Chenzhou, a descendant of the Guanshan Liao, the story weaves together three regional arcs: corpse-driving in western Hunan, witchcraft and poison arts in Miao territory, and the ancient tombs of Yin Ruins. It combines classic male-oriented fantasy elements such as corpse refinement and cultivation, the awakening of a God of War, and twists through time and space.