"Beneath the Tomb of Ten Thousand Beasts lie the dynasty's filth; in the tomb keeper's grasp rests the souls of the dead who refuse to pass on."
When the Blood-Eyed Cult uses the bride Jinyu as bait and Red Beauty's Blood-Burning Oil as a blade to sever the dragon veins and feed the Guixu, Shen Qingwan, daughter of an autopsy doctor, is forced to become a "key." Her bloodline is both the door that unleashes calamity and the coffin that will bury the conspiracy. Bound by a blood pact to Pei Xuan, a vessel of the Hidden Qilin Bureau, she joins the Ice Soul Lin Xiao in a deadly ordeal, digging out the festering sores of a thousand-year-old dynasty beyond the Dragon-Burying Gate. And beneath the golden light of the newborn dragon veins, a forest of blank steles quietly emerges from the sea of sand, awaiting the cycle's rebirth...
