My name is Jiang Muchen. I was a carefree shopkeeper in Luoyang, restoring old books and trading in antiques, until a bizarre attempt to recover a corpse from the Yellow River dragged me into a forbidden conflict that had lasted a thousand years.
🌊 My father vanished mysteriously, leaving behind a coded notebook and a tortoise shell that warns me of danger.
🌑 The multinational conglomerate Jiuding is frantically searching for ancient tomb treasures, setting off corpse mutations, sinister forces, ghostly walls, and more, driving me to the brink time and again.
🔥 I rely on my family’s inherited skills of “reading water and tracing veins” and “appraising antiquities and spotting the subtle” to unlock forbidden knowledge in one life-or-death situation after another, but I pay a terrible price for it.
👥 The team assembles:
The cool-headed strategist Su Qichi;
The retired soldier Lei Hu, a formidable fighter afflicted by a sinister poison;
My beautiful cousin Lin Xi, a forensic pathologist who clings to materialism but keeps getting proven wrong;
A Miaojiang Gu practitioner, a Tibetan guide, a mysterious undercover agent... They join one by one in this forbidden quest spanning China.
🗺️ From the haunted coffin in the Yellow River to the secret Gu arts of Miaojiang, from prophecies in the snowy mountains to the mechanical city of Bashu...
We venture into places no ordinary person would dare set foot and uncover the truth behind the “hidden world,” shaped by feng shui, shamanic rites, and sacrificial rituals.
And it all points to the legendary Yellow River Dragon Palace, said to hold the power to reverse life and death.
[Reading guide]
♂️ Folk horror, team adventure, character growth
⚡ Fast-paced, intricate worldbuilding, satisfying mysteries
No System, no supernatural powers, just real terror rooted in folk legends and a passionate fight against it!
“They thought they were searching for eternal life, never realizing they had already awakened the sleeping ghosts and gods.”
“And I’m the only one who can close this door.”
