In the 25th year of the Republic of China, Chen Sanxiao of Xi'an's Chenjia Shop had just passed his 25th birthday. The fingertips of his left hand began to ulcerate and grow black hair - this was caused by the "Blood River Curse" that had haunted the Chen family for nine generations. The ancestor mistakenly destroyed the seven-star lantern of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty, and was cursed by the imperial eunuch: The flesh of the living was rotten and the bones were hard, and they could not live past thirty-five; black smoke rose from the graves of the dead, and plague spread hundreds of miles away.
To break the curse, the only way is to find the true seven-star lamp left by Zhuge Wuhou. Chen Sanxiao carried the "Lamp-Seeking Notes" passed down from four generations of his ancestors and set off on the road with the tomb robbers on his back: in the Qin Tomb in Binzhou, he fought against the black-haired corpse evil wrapped in Qin brocade; in the Wuxi seedling nest, he hid the red flame poison that could burn through the flesh; under the Taihu Water Tomb, he broke through the whirlpool of the water curtain that swept people; beside the hanging coffin in Sichuan, he avoided the mountain wind evil that could freeze people to death...
On the road, I met three reliable partners: Qingfengzi from Longhu Mountain, who can draw talismans and ring bells to suppress corpses; Aduo from Miao Village, who can explore the way with live poison in bamboo baskets; and Zhao Hu, a former Beiyang veteran, who can break down traps with a mountain axe. The four of them gathered together and dug from Shaanxi to Lingnan, searching for clues and fighting strange objects in dangerous ancient tombs, just for the seven-star lamp that could break the curse. But after they put together the wicks, lamp oil, and lampshades, they discovered the way to break the curse, and there was also a greater mystery hidden in the ancient tombs...
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