Core setting: 1965-1975, the rise and fall of the Northern Tomb Robbers team in the ten years, integrating real historical events and underground Jianghu.
Main characters:
• Chen Qingshan (protagonist): Born in Tianshui, Gansu Province in 1948, an orphan. He went to Beijing in 1965 and was taken in by the Northern Sect's "Longmen Lock"
• Shen Hongling (female protagonist): Born in Beijing in 1950, she is the only female disciple of Suolongmen and is good at Feng Shui.
• Zhao Tieshan: Head of Suolongmen, fifty years old, descendant of the former Qing Dynasty clan, proficient in "Burial Book"
• Liu Mazi: a native of Baoding, Hebei Province, from a Tufu family, good at cracking government agencies
• Sun Xiaozhuan: A native of Shandong, the successor of Mojin Xiaowei, good at finding dragon acupoints
• Zhou Laodao: Abandoned disciple of the Longmen Sect of the Quanzhen Sect, good at using talismans to suppress evil spirits
• Ma Saner: Born in Northeast China, he is good at blasting and using force.
Real locations run through: Beijing (Panjiayuan, Liulichang, Forbidden City, Ming Tombs), Hebei (Eastern Tombs of Qing Dynasty, Western Tombs of Qing Dynasty), Shaanxi (Qianling Tombs, Zhaoling Tombs), Henan (Luoyang, Kaifeng), Shanxi (Taiyuan, Datong), Gansu (Tianshui, Dunhuang), Inner Mongolia (Chifeng, Tongliao), etc.
