Holy Crap, I Actually Inherited the Zombie King's Bloodline

Lin Jiusi, a Maoshan prodigy, slays demons and banishes evil while steadfastly upholding the righteous path. But during a mission to eliminate a jiangshi, corpse poison attacks his heart, leaving him on the brink of death. Unwilling to burden his sect, he goes alone to meet his end, only to fall by chance into a thousand-year-old sealed site and awaken Jiang Chen, the legendary Jiangshi King.

Jiang Chen is no bloodthirsty monster, but a guardian of the dragon leyline burdened by a thousand years of injustice. He makes a wager with Lin Jiusi, using the vital blood from his heart, and grants him the power of the Jiangshi King to subdue countless jiangshi. The price is that Lin Jiusi must henceforth bear a dual identity as both a Taoist priest and a Jiangshi King.

On one side is the Maoshan orthodoxy he has upheld since childhood; on the other is the Jiangshi King's bloodline, where power is everything. Lin Jiusi struggles along the boundary between good and evil. While concealing his identity as he investigates the mastermind, he also fights the Corpse-Worship Cult, which is deliberately trying to spark a war between humans and jiangshi. But at a critical moment, his identity is exposed, and he becomes a traitor hunted by the righteous sects of the world.

His master dies a tragic death, his fellow disciples turn against him, and the conspiracy comes to light. At last, Lin Jiusi breaks free of his cocoon and emerges transformed. Wielding the power of jiangshi through his humanity, he faces the apocalyptic beast Hou at the summit of Mount Tai. With two paths within him, he breaks the thousand-year divide between humans and jiangshi and forges a righteous path in the mortal world all his own: that of the Maoshan Jiangshi King.