Snow blankets the peaks, frost crowns the ridges, and emerald slopes rise around ravines.
Bark canoes drift beneath the moon on the Songhua River, while beast-bone knives gleam across the frontier.
The sacrificial rites stir the wind, a hardship no one can bear; sour cabbage by the kang keeps the cold outside.
Antler velvet lies hidden in the depths of the clouds, waiting for the expedition leader to return with a full haul.
In the winter of 1928, a blizzard sealed off Songling Village. To provide for the villagers, expedition leader Chen Jiangshui took his apprentices winter hunting through the snow, but they lost their way. At an abandoned hunting hut, they encountered a "snow corpse," setting in motion the legend of a Manchu general's tomb.
Yang Changfeng, a battalion commander in the Fengtian Army, Daoist Priest Ma, the female bandit chief Xuelihong, and several villagers formed a tomb-exploring party to enter the tomb and suppress the Corpse King.
In the fierce battle, Chen Jiangshui thrust a peachwood sword at the Corpse King. As he died, the Corpse King's blood splashed onto the sword, triggering a transformation and bringing forth Immortal Corpse Blood.
Decades later, Wang Changxi adopted Chen Jiangshui's son, Chen Wazi. When Chen Wazi had a son, the child was named Chen Linsen because Chen Jiangshui had once cut down a thousand-year-old peach tree and incurred a curse that left the child lacking wood in his fate. Wang Changxi made a peachwood talisman from a fragment of the sword to ward off evil for him.
At seventeen, Chen Linsen became a forest ranger. While rescuing a lost educated youth, he was injured, and his blood activated the Immortal Corpse Blood within the peachwood talisman, granting him the Corpse King's Eye and Corpse King's Arm abilities.
But the educated youth accidentally trespassed into the general's tomb and damaged the Soul-Sealing Formation, awakening the Corpse King. Songling Village was plunged into danger, and Chen Linsen took up his ancestors' duty to face the Corpse King's threat.
Yet beneath the Heavenly Lake, in the mysterious ancient tomb beyond the general's tomb, an even greater crisis was about to unfold...
From the first encounter scene where the snow corpse is discovered to the digging of clues around the general's tomb, one can clearly feel the master's control over "environmental enhancement of emotions". Every description of the wind and snow echoes the rhythm of the plot, allowing the suspense to naturally ferment in the extremely cold atmosphere. It is both chilling to read and makes people want to read more...
Very nice to see the family
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