Records of Nine Netherworlds in the Dust

In the late 1970s, the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution was gradually receding, and social undercurrents were surging. Veteran soldier Chen Shan (nicknamed "Mandrill") was involved in a thousand-year-old secret buried underground because of a bronze compass engraved with strange symbols and a vague last word left behind by his grandfather before his death. In order to find his father who has been missing for many years and is also obsessed with ancient secrets, and to solve the mystery of the compass, he has to regain the "craft" passed down from his ancestors but has long been abandoned by the times. He got acquainted with **Lin Xue** ("Snow Harrier"), a young geological engineer with a family background who was proficient in ancient Chinese characters and Feng Shui, and ** Wang Fatzi** ("Fat Master") who was bold and careful, good at blasting and machinery, and had developed "local master" skills in a special era. The three people came together for different purposes and formed an illegal "underground expedition team." Following the guidance of the bronze compass, they pieced together a clue to ancient mausoleums from different eras and regions from dusty archive files, secret folklore and the tacit words of the older generation. These tombs are not simply the tombs of emperors and generals, but are closely related to the "Jiuyousi", a secret organization that has been trying to control the "dragon energy of the earth" and pursue immortality or some kind of taboo power since the pre-Qin era. From the crisis-ridden hanging coffin burials in Bashu in southwest China to the exquisite secrets of the Western Regions buried deep under the yellow sand; from the undercurrents of the Danmin Shipwreck Treasure Cave in the South China Sea to the Bohai Kingdom altar forgotten deep in the old forests of northeast China; until it finally points to the core secret of the legendary "Nine Yousi"