The Phoenix of Qishan

Name: The Phoenix of Qishan
Author: Happy Big Rice Bucket

岐山凤

by Happy Big Rice Bucket (快乐的大饭桶)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 403k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery & Supernatural
Updated: 6mo ago
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【Mystery × Lovecraftian Horror × The Uncanny】When an archaeologist’s trowel uncovers more than yellow earth, it awakens the primordial whispers sealed away by blood sacrifice Zhang Ji, an archaeology student at Huanbei University, encounters a bizarre sacrificial pit during his graduation fieldwork in Mop an Village. Pottery basins, ox bones, red earth, stone slabs, and shells are buried according to a pattern no one can understand. Disturb them, and they awaken an indescribable “presence” deep within the earth’s veins. The team members’ body temperatures inexplicably plummet, their electronic equipment fails all at once, and shadows twist like living things in the dead of night… Because of the unusual date of his birth, Zhang Ji becomes its most tempting prey. Tang Jiawei, a feng shui master with unusual skills despite his humble background, gets drawn into the affair through a drunken tomb-robbing case. A sinister bronze gui vessel and two tomb raiders who have lost their minds reveal that the place is a deadly “Tian’gang Water Formation.” Granny Jiu, a village elder versed in ancient lore, warns him obliquely: buried beneath the yellow earth are the dark rules by which the ancestors communicated and bargained with it. To save his marked companions, Zhang Ji has no choice but to join forces with Tang Jiawei, walking a tightrope between empirical archaeology and esoteric tradition. At the bottom of Ghost-Crying Ravine, before ancient rock carvings, he uses blood as a guide to deliver a perilous “reply.” But this temporary calm is only the beginning. Every clue points south, to the early Shang ruins beside the great river: Panlongcheng. From Mopan Village to Panlongcheng, from sacrificial pits to gigantic tombs absent from the historical record, a horrifying truth concealed beneath bronze and oracle bones gradually comes to light. The transition from the Shang to the Zhou was not merely a change of kingship. It was a perilous campaign of deicide that drove “ghosts and gods” from the human world and ushered Huaxia into the age of humankind.

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