Chen Ling, the 37th-generation descendant of a tomb-raiding family, is afflicted with a blood curse passed down through his clan from the Miao frontier. He has only one year left to live. To break the curse and extend his life, he and his companions venture into the vast mountains of the Miao frontier in search of the tomb of the ancient Miao shaman king, buried for a thousand years. Along the way, they unravel sorcery-powered traps and deadly blood-coffin schemes, battle mountain spirits, strange beasts, and wicked sorcerer clans, and ultimately uncover the century-old feud between their ancestors and the shaman king. They expose the fraud behind the secrets of immortality, break the family curse, and protect forbidden occult arts from falling into the wrong hands.
