The Xie family was a lineage of feng shui masters and a direct branch of the tomb-raiding tradition. With their book, The Dragon-Seeking Chronicle, they could locate dragon veins and burial sites and understand the forces of yin and yang. Yet during the War of Resistance, the family was wiped out in a blaze of loyalty. Four sons died in battle, leaving only the youngest, Xie Yiju, to carry on the family's last thread of bloodline.
He was a top student at a prestigious medical university, well-read and destined for a bright future. From childhood, he had helped his grandfather handle funerals and weddings in the countryside, learning the principles of feng shui and geomancy. He had also memorized the family's secret text, The Dragon-Seeking Chronicle. The book contained ancient tomb techniques, mysteries of yin and yang, strange occult events, and secrets of tomb raiding. But his grandfather had strictly warned him: in this peaceful, law-abiding age, he must never engage in illegal tomb raiding. He could remember the contents, but must not learn the practices.
Xie Yiju thought he would spend his life completely cut off from the occult arts of yin and yang and become an ordinary doctor. That changed when his roommate returned to the dorm late one night, infected by corpse fiend energy. His face was deathly pale, and a formaldehyde stench, the kind that should cling to cadavers in the anatomy lab, hung around him. His personality changed drastically, and his behavior became increasingly bizarre.
He read the qi and saw the malevolent aura: his yang fire had nearly gone out, and yin fiend energy clung to his bones. The feng shui arts buried deep within him were finally unleashed.
Beneath the veneer of peace, evil lurks on the medical campus. Did the corpse fiend energy come from accidentally trespassing in a place of yin, or is something more sinister at work?
The secrets of The Dragon-Seeking Chronicle have awakened once more, and the fate of the tomb-raiding heir cannot be escaped. Forced into a maze of yin and yang, Xie Yiju must choose between the law and his roommate's life. Long-sealed tales of ancient tombs, deadly mechanisms, and strange happenings between yin and yang are finally coming to light.
