Souls Reborn in the Haunted Tomb

Lin Du, an ordinary graduate student in history, sneaks into a restricted archaeological site late at night to investigate the mystery of his advisor’s disappearance. When he touches the jade disc inside a newly unearthed Tang dynasty tomb, his consciousness is instantly dragged into a dark abyss.

When he “wakes” again, he has become a corpse in a coffin: Li Xuanxi, the last prince of the Dashun Dynasty.

A thousand years ago, the prince was buried alive on the outskirts of the imperial mausoleum during a palace coup. With his dying breath, he used every drop of his life force to perform a forbidden ritual, sealing countless resentful spirits inside his body. A thousand years later, when a modern soul takes possession of this incorruptible corpse, Lin Du discovers to his horror that he can move his consciousness between the ancient corpse and his modern body. And every time he returns to the present, the strange entities in the tomb “seep out” with him. More terrifying still, every night at midnight, something invisible “feeds” in the darkness of the tomb, while the exquisite murals on its walls twist in the moonlight into scenes of genuine horror...

To uncover the truth and break the curse, Lin Du has no choice but to navigate two eras and two identities. By day, he is an ordinary graduate student. By night, he is the prince in the coffin, searching for forbidden knowledge deep within the tomb. But as his investigation progresses, he gradually uncovers a secret more terrifying than death: the tomb itself is a colossal seal. And his ancient corpse is precisely the seal’s central formation point. The ones truly imprisoned in the tomb are the resentful souls of the “strange-path” cultivators who once nearly overturned the human world.

When the modern archaeological team decides to excavate the entire mausoleum, Lin Du knows the seal is about to break. Should he keep hiding his identity, or risk revealing the secrets he shares with the tomb? And the one who buried the prince alive all those years ago was not a political rival, but the Imperial Preceptor he trusted most.