A cursed true name. A cycle of death spanning three thousand years.
Chen Jiu, an antiques dealer in Panjiayuan, thought he would spend the rest of his life hawking junk. Then, on a snowy night on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, a mysterious woman offered him three jin of priceless Hetian jade seeds in exchange for a trip to the Kunlun Mountains.
What she handed him was not a map, but a bloodstained sheet of yellow paper. What she wanted was not money or treasure, but the life carved into his “Kunlun Bone.”
The curse of “Ghost Combing Hair” descended: his hair moved without a breeze, and after three strokes of the comb, his soul would be destroyed. Guided by the bone-finding token left behind by his master, Chen Jiu was forced into Wind-Eroded Valley, known as a “forbidden zone of the mortal world.”
Deep in the valley, a colossal skull-shaped gate led to the “Hall of Rebirth” and could only be opened with Netherfire. Inside, a forest of interlocking bones surrounded the altar, where a “bone husk” slept in a crystal coffin, its face identical to Chen Jiu’s. His master’s corpse knelt before the coffin. And the woman who had drawn him into this scheme was, in truth, a “dead soul” that had been inhabiting his master’s body for decades.
Was the Kunlun Bone the remains of the Queen Mother of the West, who sought immortality, or the shed body of something far more ancient?
Chen Jiu must not only struggle to survive the deadly cycle of “Ghost Combing Hair,” but also uncover the astonishing secret of his origins. Why is he the “remnant soul” that escaped from the bone husk in the coffin? Why is he the only one who can awaken the golden light in the “Bonekeeper’s Eye”? And why can his blood open the hidden gate to the Hall of Rebirth?
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