In the third year of Jianning in the Eastern Han Dynasty, strange phenomena occurred frequently in the barren tombs in Mang Mountain on the outskirts of Luoyang. Woodcutter disappeared and went crazy and spread rumors. The shadow of the "Red Coffin Ghost" shrouded the surrounding areas. Captain Jia Xu of Yulin was ordered to go to the tomb to investigate, and unexpectedly uncovered a shocking secret that spanned the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties - there was no body or skeleton in the red coffin, only a black jade with the word "Yin" engraved on it, and the withered bones of a young girl hiding the seal of the soul-nurturing curse.
That was Zhao, the favorite concubine of Liu He, the deposed emperor of the Western Han Dynasty. She was sentenced to death due to a witchcraft case and was given the "secret technique of bone suppression". She used her own bones as an array to suppress thousands of innocent souls in the tomb. But a hundred years later, the formation changed and the ghosts fled, not only because of the disturbance of the tomb robbers, but also because of the undercurrent of power in the Luoyang court - the eunuch group colluded with the old tribes of the former Han Dynasty, hoping to use the power of the ghosts to subvert the regime, and the green and black curse quietly spread in Jia Xu's palm, which had already involved him in this chess game of "collusion between humans and ghosts".
From the Mangshan ancient tombs to the deep palaces of Luoyang, from the secrets of witchcraft to the fighting in the court, Jia Xu took half a volume of "Yin Bone Records" to fight against the treacherous and dangerous situations of hanged ghosts seeking lives, stone figurines biting people, and resentful spirits whispering, while navigating the power cracks of eunuchs, relatives, and Qingliu. He gradually discovered that his ancestors were actually tomb guards who guarded the imperial mausoleum, and the curse of Zhao's withered bones had long been connected to his bloodline.
When the resentful ghost of Liu He breaks through the seal, Luoyang City becomes a hell on earth. When the truth of history is revealed layer by layer - the secret of the destruction of the Western Han Dynasty, the disguise of the Eastern Han Dynasty royal family, and the injustice of the witchcraft case, Jia Xu must choose between "saving himself" and "saving the world", "private love" and "righteousness". So he sacrificed his body to the formation, inherited the mission of his ancestors, and became the half-human and half-ghost Yinling Shou.
