On a stormy night in a Western Han tomb, Xiao Fei’s Luoyang shovel unearths a “living corpse” that breathes. This master tomb raider, skilled in the arts of feng shui, has never seen anything so eerie: ghostly blue flames flicker in the thousand-year-old corpse’s eyes, and the rune carved into its chest is identical to his family crest.
When his companions begin dying one after another, Xiao Fei realizes he has been caught up in a terrifying curse that has endured for two thousand years. In his quest for immortality, Qin Shi Huang once sacrificed the lives of seventy-two feng shui masters to forcibly suppress Huaxia’s dragon veins. Now the seal is weakening, and the cursed tomb guardians are awakening beneath the earth. Flowing through Xiao Fei’s veins is the bloodline of the sole Dragon Guardian to escape back then.
To break the curse, Xiao Fei has no choice but to work with his archenemies. Archaeological expert Su Yuqing possesses the lost original text of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, while the family cipher brought by the mysterious woman Leng Yue turns out to share the same source as the runes on the living corpse. The three venture deep into a sinister underground palace and solve an ancient puzzle, unaware that an even greater conspiracy is brewing. Mo Wuxie, young master of the Netherworld Sect, has gathered all five Dragon Soul Jade Talismans and awaits the night of the blood moon to awaken the slumbering dragon soul of the ley lines.
As love and hatred intertwine, and protection stands only a hair’s breadth from destruction, Xiao Fei must choose: break the curse and save all living beings, or unleash the dragon soul’s power to avenge his family? This fateful battle spanning a thousand years will finally end at the source of Huaxia’s dragon veins, in the “Tomb of the Living,” where no one has ever come back alive...
