Corpse Painter! Chronicles of Sealing Souls Across Nine Lifetimes

For a thousand years, the ancestral taboo, "When the dead open their eyes, the funeral master must stop," has been passed down by word of mouth in the funeral trade. Ling Yuxin, a forensic pathologist with the city bureau, becomes involved with a funeral home after a bizarre death, and accidentally uncovers the heart of this taboo: she is the legendary Heaven-Bestowed Corpse Painter. Across nine cycles of reincarnation, each of her deaths has been caused by an evil entity sealed inside her body running wild. The skill she uses to apply makeup to the dead is actually a forbidden art called "Painting Souls into Bone," which locks evil thoughts inside her.

Song Jiu, the owner of a funeral company and heir to the Way of Heaven Sect, has spent a thousand years tracking the Heaven-Bestowed Corpse Painter. But after meeting Ling Yuxin, he discovers that the soul of this woman, who always says, "Doing makeup for the dead is just a craft," bears nine marks that do not belong to this world. As the truth emerges behind Du Xiaoling's suicide, a string of deaths at the funeral home, and the death of Lin Jing's fiancée, the evil cult known as the Asura Sect reappears in the world, seeking the Asura Blade, a weapon capable of severing karma. Lingyue, a descendant of the nine-tailed fox, makes her appearance and reveals the truth behind the seals placed on Ling Yuxin in each life: her body is a "living coffin" used by generations of Heaven-Bestowed Corpse Painters to suppress evil entities.

From red candles in the morgue to old graves in deserted villages, from a funeral home overrun by the walking dead to the Kunlun Ruins, where an ancient formation lies hidden, Ling Yuxin and Song Jiu walk the boundary between life and death, uncovering the terrible price of being "Heaven-Bestowed." The so-called "Painting Souls into Bone" merely turns the corpse painter into a vessel for evil entities; and the so-called "nine cycles of reincarnation" are in truth Heaven's punishment for those who defy fate. As the final cycle begins, Ling Yuxin must choose between releasing the evil entity inside her to save all living beings and sealing herself away forever, doomed to reincarnate for eternity...