The Secrets of the Ink Pivot

Lin Yan, the sole heir to the Mo Shu Sect, spent ten years working as a carpenter among ordinary folk to evade the blood feud that wiped out his sect. No one knows the lost mortise-and-tenon mechanism craft he has mastered, a technique unseen for a thousand years. When a dangerous Han dynasty tomb bearing the sect’s secret mark is unearthed at a university construction site, one tomb raider is dead and two are trapped, while no one can overcome the deadly mechanisms. Su Qingyuan, captain of the provincial cultural relics criminal investigation team, comes to ask for help. Lin Yan is stunned to discover that the tomb is linked to the Ghost Hand Sect, the enemies who murdered his master. Using his supreme mastery of mechanisms, he solves the puzzle and enters the tomb. Joining forces with the bold and decisive Su Qingyuan, he faces a chain of mechanisms laid over a thousand years ago and pursues the mastermind behind it all. Step by step, he uncovers the secret truth behind the Mo Shu Sect’s two-thousand-year legacy, beginning a perilous journey to explore tombs and hunt down killers.