In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu's reign, corpse disasters occurred frequently.
Chen Sanwen was born as a "corpse inquirer" and could understand the last words of the deceased, but he was always looked down upon. Maoshan Taoist Master Mao Xiaofang took him to Guangdong, hoping to become a disciple of his senior brother Lin Jiu - the legendary Taoist priest who had the "line of three corpses" and could suppress the transformation of corpses in the world but could not survive forty-nine.
On the way south, there were cases of mute corpses, corpses of mother and son, victims fleeing famine... Behind every tragedy, there was a conspiracy that had been brewing for thousands of years: "Seven Corpses to Suppress the Dragon". Seven extremely gloomy places, seven major corpse transformations, behind which are the dark webs intertwined by cults, foreigners, and warlords.
And Sanwen gradually discovered that his encounter with Lin Jiu was not accidental. The day when the two thousand-year fates of the corpse interrogator and the corpse suppressor meet each other is when the catastrophe begins...
In troubled times, wars rage and yin and yang are out of order. Let's look at the young man asking about the corpse, the Taoist priest suppressing the evil, and in this era where humans and ghosts are indistinguishable, they find a way to ask questions.
(Core elements: History of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China + Maoshan Taoism + suspenseful investigation + master-disciple bond + feelings of family and country)
