Blood seeps from the old house's steelyard weight late at night, drawing the villagers into the Vine Bridge massacre from thirty years ago. To save a village being ravaged by the earth's ley lines, Lin Xi and Lao Caotou, a man burdened by past sins, enter a perilous ancient tomb. When reopening the seal requires a blood sacrifice and the Chen clan chief secretly watches from the shadows, the truth proves far darker than anyone imagined. The mountain guardian's fate begins the moment he takes up that bloodstained copper coin.
