Tomb Raiding: Uncle Nine Is My Senior Brother

【Uncle Jiu + Candle in the Tomb + The Grave Robbers' Chronicles + the post-Primordial era + the Myriad Worlds + 108 Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches divine arts】 This is a story set in the post-Primordial era. After the immeasurable calamity, the gods and Buddhas of the Myriad Worlds left the Primordial World in pursuit of the Dao Fruit beyond the Great Dao. All they left behind in Heaven and the Underworld were their magical treasures, which now act as their representatives and govern the Myriad Worlds. This is an xianxia version of Candle in the Tomb and The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, with each character’s background and motivations adapted to fit the xianxia setting. In 1929, eighteen-year-old Li Taiyuan, an orthodox Maoshan disciple, descends the mountain to gain experience. He carries a mysterious blank heavenly book and a Red Flame Sword with ties to ancient karma. The book contains 108 divine arts of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. He can unlock them one by one only by slaying demons and accumulating merit among humanity. The Red Flame Sword turns out to be made from a remnant root of the Fusang Tree, an innate spiritual root. What connection does this sword have to the deaths of great demons like the Snake God? The mortal world is now in an age when the cultivation path is fading. The flesh of ancient great demons is greedily devouring the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth, and the highest realm mortal cultivators can reach is the pinnacle of Refining Qi into Spirit. What future remains for cultivation? Li Taiyuan joins his senior brother, Uncle Jiu, in slaying demons. He also accompanies the Gold-Touching Captains deep into thousand-year-old tombs and hidden grotto-heavens, searching for secrets buried in the dust. The Ghost Cave of the City of Jingjue, a sunken ship beneath the Xisha Islands, the Bronze Gate on Changbai Mountain… All these legendary forbidden sites turn out to be connected to spiritless grotto-heavens that imprison the primordial spirits of great demons. The secret guarded for generations by the Zhang family of Mount Longhu is about to be revealed. As the sleeping ancient gods near awakening, Li Taiyuan, Uncle Jiu, Xiaoge, Hu Bayi, and their rivals are drawn into a war over the Hunyuan Dao Fruit and control of Third Sister…