Chen Yan, an antiques shop owner, suddenly receives a human-skin map marked for his death, and his family's heirloom bronze mirror explodes. A blood curse reads, “Three generations of the Chen family: the debt must be repaid today.” It leads him to a forbidden region in the Ailao Mountains, known to the Miao people as “the Devil's Land.” To break his family's fate, he joins forces with Wang Shuo, his sharp-tongued, gutsy childhood friend, and Ling Yue, a mysterious Black Miao guide with extraordinary skills and unusually long index fingers. Together, they enter a forest of death where “magnetic mountains swallow compasses, and miasma devours lives.”
Beneath a bottomless cold pool filled with floating, skinned corpses, Chen Yan uses the secret treasure known as the Soulbirth Jade to unlock an underwater passage leading to the heart of the sacrificial altar. But the moment the passage opens, it also awakens a terrifying presence sleeping inside a dark-red “blood coffin”: “It.” The Strange Scrolls of Ailao builds a vast, perilous death realm in the eerie style of The Grave Robbers' Chronicles. Mysterious magnetic fields, living miasma, sinister witchcraft, and ancient rituals interlock in a tightly woven plot.
Chen Yan, Ling Yue, and Wang Shuo forge an unbreakable bond in the face of mortal danger. To uncover the truth behind the “corpse immortal” and repay their blood debt, they embark on a journey through the underworld, facing a deadly struggle against supernatural forces and human greed. When the bronze casket begins to hum and the blood coffin's red light stirs, the real horror is only just beginning…
