Thirty Degrees North: I Break Ghostly Domains with Rules

[Rule Horror] + [Mystery and Horror] + [Satisfying Story] + [Old Gods]

My name is Chen Mou. To find my missing mentor, I ventured alone into the haunted region at the thirtieth parallel north.

In the Cave of the Nuo God, cinnabar characters decide life and death: Do not look back. Do not answer. Do not open your eyes.

God's servants hunt me down, old gods corrupt me, and both the real and fake Xu Qingshan scheme against me. Three questions and three answers at the Temple of the Yellow Immortal, the shadow curse of Blackwater City, the bloodline sacrifice at Guixu: every step is a deadly trap.

Thankfully, I awakened the bloodline of the Furnace Keeper and a gift for deduction, allowing me to see through every flaw in the rules!

I braved haunted regions and gathered blessings, hoping to break the generations-old fate of sacrifice. But then I discovered that my mother was still alive, my father was a vessel for an old god's shadow, and I was the final sacrifice chosen by the old gods!

But rules are dead, and people are alive. This damned fate is one I will defy!