The Last Corpse Retriever in Zhenhe

[Folk Horror Mystery + Corpse Retriever + Double Pupils + Kunlun Expedition + Ruthless Protagonist] The Yellow River winds nine times, hiding dark secrets beneath its waters. The living are sacrificed to the river, while the dead borrow its passage. I am Chen Jiu, the last corpse retriever on the Yellow River. Born with double pupils, I can see yin and yang, discern life and death, and detect hidden treasures. Eighteen years ago, my mother died a gruesome death, and my mysterious father vanished without a trace, leaving behind a piece of black jade and endless riddles. Eighteen years later, a map made of human skin surfaced, dragging me into a shocking conspiracy a thousand years in the making. From the hundred-coffin formation in the Yellow River’s Ghost Gate Whirlpool to the thunderous forbidden zone of Kunlun’s Valley of Death. I seek no immortality, only my family. I believe in neither gods nor Buddhas, only the ghost-slaying blade in my hand! I take on the greedy villains of the Treasure Hoarders’ Sect and cut down the body-snatching sorcerers of the Yin Mountain Sect. I tame the spirit maiden who transformed into a dragon in the Yellow River and match wits with the cultured scoundrels of the Ghost Market. A blind guide who finds burial sites by listening to thunder, a white-robed sorcerer who turns paper figures into soldiers, and all manner of gods and demons battling over the Kunlun Divine Embryo... When the long-sealed bronze door finally opened, I discovered that so-called immortality was nothing but a scam, using heaven and earth as a furnace and all living beings as its ingredients. “Chen Jiu, those eyes of yours are the only key to seeing through the illusions of this world.” There is no System here, only the purest form of traditional Chinese folk horror and a jianghu legend of bloodshed across both the worlds of yin and yang.