In the twenty-third year of the Republic of China, Xiangxi.
The Chen family was wiped out overnight, and thirty-two people were buried in thirty-two thin coffins. The only one who escaped was Chen Wangbei's son Chen Jiu
Four years later, Chen Jiucheng became a corpse exhumer. He received a strange corpse extermination job in Heizhugou. Among the seven corpses, an eighth "thing" was mixed in - a faceless corpse with the face sewn shut. The thing tore open its skin and revealed a piece of yellow paper. On it was a list written by Chen Wangbei himself, but it had been tampered with.
Chen Jiu followed the clues and found the medicine store of Bai Jingshan, the "Master Gu" of Yuanling. In the underground stone room, he found a woman who had been locked up for thirty-one years - Shen Ling, the last bloodline of the Shen family. Half of the dragon vein map hanging over the coffin cliff is engraved on her skin, and the other half is hidden in the broken knife of the Chen family.
Bai Jingshan, Japanese spies, remnants of the former dynasty, and the guardians of the hanging coffin... The four forces are all competing for the same secret: the things buried in the ancient tomb at Xingcoffa Cliff. Some people say that it is the key to the dragon veins of the previous dynasty, some say that it is a magic that can subvert yin and yang, and some say that it contains the power to make the dead walk and the living without graves. The broken knife is one of the keys to open the ancient tomb. In order to rescue his father who was trapped in a gloomy wooden coffin, in order to uncover the truth behind the Chen family's annihilation, and in order to preserve the last dragon spirit in western Hunan, Chen Jiu had to form an alliance with the Miao voodoo girl, the corpse exorcist family, and the coffin guardians to fight his way through the cracks between warlords, Japan, and the remnants of the previous dynasty. But when the broken knives merged into one and the hanging coffin was opened, Chen Jiucai discovered that what was buried in the ancient tomb was not treasures or dragon veins, but the last curse left to the world by a mad emperor three hundred years ago.
