Chen Sanshui, a down-and-out archaeologist, glimpsed the secret of the Western Zhou Dynasty Bronze Ghost Seal in the incomplete map left behind by his grandfather. He teamed up with veteran Zhang Tiedan, the daughter of a mysterious antique dealer, Su Mingyue, and others to step into a tomb robbing puzzle full of traps and curses. From the hanging coffins in western Hunan to the Han tombs in the Qinling Mountains, they were repeatedly obstructed by the mysterious organization "Hades" when deciphering the seven-star suspicious coffin formation. After finding the ghost seal, they triggered a fatal curse and witnessed the sacrifice of their teammates.
The information hidden in Guixi points to the dragon vein of Lishan Mountain. The team goes deep into the ancient tombs in Luoyang to find the blueprints of the outer city of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum. However, they are in crisis when the identity of the double agent Black Glasses is exposed. The agency accidentally triggered traps them underground. As supernatural phenomena such as the resurrection of terracotta warriors and horses and underground mercury river creatures occur frequently, they discover the energy connection between Guixi and Huangquan City. They encounter the witch Ayina in the forbidden land of the Miao people in Yunnan, and unexpectedly encounter the "resurrected body" of their former teammate in Huangquan City.
After obtaining the coordinates of Kunlun from Huangquan City, Chen Sanshui and his party crossed Death Valley with the assistance of snow lamas and biologists, and found the Palace of the Western Queen deep in the Ice Palace. Time and space are frequently disrupted in the palace. Although they have obtained the secret of immortality, they have uncovered the dark truth of its time-space manipulation technology - Guixi is actually the key to controlling Guixu. The return of Su Mingyue, a descendant of the Queen Mother of the West, pushes everyone towards the ultimate showdown with the leader of "Hades". In the parallel world of Guixu, Zhang Tietang sacrificed his life to close the space-time rift, and Chen Sanshui finally faced the philosophical torture of immortality and reincarnation as a new generation of tombkeepers.
