A bag of cinnabar soil found in Changsha Antique Street involves the legend of the "secret talisman" of a thousand-year-old ancient village in western Hunan. In order to find his missing brother, Chen Yan walked into the fog with his grandfather's "Notes on Grave Identification", but unexpectedly formed an alliance with Su Tang, a village girl who fled with a talisman in the antique street.
A bronze talisman and half a family heirloom jade pendant drag the two into a mysterious situation in western Hunan: the ringing sound of corpse exorcism chases the soul on a rainy night, the song of the girl in the Luohua Cave hides a code, and the bloody totem under the cliff hanging on the coffin faintly overlaps with the old photos of Chen Yan's family. From the old house in Changsha to Yaozilun in Taojiang, from Emperor Shun's Mausoleum in Jiuyi Mountain to the darkroom of Xu Weili's tomb in Zhejiang, and then to the Chu tombs in Jing'an, Jiangxi... Along the way, they solved the riddles of "The Deer Peak Reflects the Meridian Gate" and "The Mercury Identifies the Stars", fought against the pursuit of transnational tomb robber gangs, and uncovered the truth about the archaeological accident of their fathers' generation.
When the secret talisman in Su Tang's palm came into contact with the jade pendant in Chen Yan's arms, the mountain wind in western Hunan suddenly rose. Those taboo past events that had been sealed away by the Tujia old man, and the mystery that was difficult to distinguish between humans and ghosts, were coming upstream along the You River. What they are looking for is never treasure, but a "way to survive" out of this secret realm alive, and the family's destiny buried deep in their blood.
