In the late Qing and early Republican eras, disaster strikes the five northwestern provinces! This is no natural calamity. The ancient insect horror, the Nine Nether Ants, has broken free of its seal, bent on devouring the earth's ley lines and reshaping the world! Corpse fiends of the loess plateau, a river wraith in the Yellow River, a ghost market in the Yin Mountains, the evil eye of Kunlun... The demons and monsters appearing across the region are only lesser manifestations of this terrifying being! The Northwest has become a hell from another world!
Chen Jiuyao, the sole survivor of the Evil-Subduing Sect, carries a blood feud. He seems ordinary, but an unknown bloodline for subduing evil flows within him! When the Handbook of Evil-Subduing resonates with his bloodline, a dormant power awakens...
