At the instant of death, my soul fell into the Prison of Guixu, a place without day or night.
There are no lucky encounters or supernatural abilities here, only a hundred deadly paranormal trials. The only slim chance of tearing through the chaos and returning to reality is to amass a million Guixu points and survive all one hundred haunted paths.
The prison’s laws are cold and merciless: missions offer no hints, allow no mistakes, and give no second chances. Speak of reality and you die on the spot. Ghosts and monsters cannot be harmed by blades or bullets. To survive, you must decipher the rules hidden in bloodied remains and eerie whispers.
Each mission throws strangers together to fight for survival. Betrayal and sacrifice are the norm, and humanity’s collapse is far more chilling than the evil spirits. A prison brand on the left hand locks in a countdown to death. Paper money made from remnant souls carries the dead’s wails, while forbidden notes conceal both a path to survival and an abyss of sacrifice.
Lin Yan, an emergency-room nurse, enters this purgatory for the sake of his seriously ill younger sister, who clings to life through sheer will. He has no hero’s aura or superhuman strength, only an extraordinary eye for detail and the quiet endurance to master his fear. He scrapes by through layer upon layer of hell: sealed haunted houses, folk customs in abandoned towns, everyday life turned uncanny, endless time loops, ancient evil spirits, and the living killing one another.
Only when the hundred missions are over does he glimpse the shocking deception: the so-called journey home is a scheme to select vessels for the prison.
With an ordinary mortal’s body, he shatters the rules and faces the underworld enforcers and the prison itself alone, staking half his ruined soul on a chance to return.
At last, he makes it home to the living world. But yin energy clings to him, and he can see both yin and yang. From then on, the familiar warmth of human life is forever shadowed by boundless horrors.
He escaped the Prison of Guixu, but he can never escape the hell that follows him.
