A massive flood destroyed every means of survival. To save his mother, Zhang Xizhu, a young man from the countryside, was forced into the shady business of grave robbing.
He learned to read the earth and find tombs according to the Northern School, and trained in tomb-divining techniques to locate their hidden chambers. From barren graves and tiny tombs, he fought his way toward ancient mausoleums thousands of years old, packed with traps.
Inside the tombs were bizarre corpse fiends and deadly, interlocking traps. Outside, the underworld was rife with ruthless betrayals, gang treachery, and turf wars.
Amid the twin dangers of the loess and the human heart, a man at the very bottom of society carved out a one-way path to riches, gambling his life for fortune.
Fight fiends in the tombs, and human nature outside them.
In this line of work, you have always had to wager your life to take another's.
