Hu Xiaoba was born with a tongue that could tell soil apart, and a pair of “Three Rivers water eyes” that could see dragon veins beneath the water. When his grandfather dies mysteriously, half of a map to sunken treasure in Lake Tai drags him into a century-old mystery surrounding the Southern School of tomb raiders.
The hanging coffins of Lake Tai, the fog-shrouded mausoleum of the Pearl River, shipwrecks in the Min Sea, the Corpse King of western Hunan... One strange tomb after another, buried deep beneath rivers and lakes, comes to light. The international smuggling syndicate known as the Sea Dragon Society follows his every move, while the mysterious “Tomb Guardians” are sometimes enemies and sometimes allies. And a feud spanning three generations gradually comes to the surface.
Three hundred meters underwater, the ghostly glow behind a bronze gate illuminates more than ancient burial treasures. Only after Hu Xiaoba pieces together the final fragment of the Chu silk manuscript does he discover that the true mission of the Southern School of tomb raiders was never to rob tombs. It was to use tomb raiding to stop tomb raiding, protecting another history book, submerged beneath the rivers, lakes, and seas of China.
[The Northern School reads the earth to locate tombs; the Southern School uses its tongue to identify water veins. This time, the tomb is underwater
