Chen Ye, a graduate student in archeology in Zhengzhou, teamed up with the Forbidden City restorer Su Qinghuan and the tomb robber Lao Jiu because of half of the "Dragon Holding the Pearl" painting, and was involved in the thousand-year secret of the Shang King Wu Ding's "Nine Dragons Holding the Pearl" formation. From the hanging soul ladder in the Xuanwu Tomb in Xishan, Zhengzhou, to the living figurines in the Qinglong Tomb in Funiu Mountain, to the shaman jade trap in the White Tiger Tomb in Yin Ruins, the three of them cracked the thunder mark mechanism and the corpse miasma, and gradually revealed the truth that the nine Zhenlong Tombs were actually used to suppress the remnant souls of Taotie. Chen Ye's "bone-penetrating eyes" and Su Qinghuan's gold and silver rubbing techniques compete against Zhou Mo, the leader of the Black Bird Society who is obsessed with immortality, and Granny Tang, who uses poison to seek revenge. When the secrets of their grandfather's remains and the Taotie Tomb were revealed, they finally used the dragon's title diagram to strengthen the seal and gave up their selfish desires to protect the dragon's veins. From the redemption of a family of tomb robbers to the transformation of the guardian of cultural relics, the story is written in the fog of history and the game of human nature, and writes the legend of the Central Plains secrets that "protection is more meaningful than plundering".
