On the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, the gate of hell opens, mountains and seas revive, and modern civilization collapses overnight. Folklore short video blogger Zou Xuan returns to his hometown for a funeral, just in time to catch up with the demolition of the Zou family's ancestral temple. The tribesmen were scrambling to sign and share the money, and he just wanted to finish the funeral and leave the village, which was trapped by old rules. But after midnight, the dead returned, the ancestral graves cracked open, and a white paper road appeared at the entrance of the village, and the whole village was forced to flee into the ancestral temple. At a critical moment, Zou Xuan found an old genealogy from under his grandmother's coffin, accidentally awakened the Zou family's ancestral temple, and became the last keeper of the temple. From then on, genealogy can identify ghosts, record merits and demerits, and judge sins; ancestral precepts can be transformed into rules to protect the living; incense can invite ancestral spirits to return, suppress evil and kill ghosts. Others rely on supernatural weapons to build fortresses in the last days, but Zou Xuan uses his ancestral temple to establish his ancestral land, his family tree to collect heroic spirits, and his ancestors to control the mountains and seas. However, he soon discovered that not all ancestral temples protect descendants. Some evil temples swallow people's incense, some clan leaders sacrifice living people in the name of their ancestors, and some old forces only protect the bloodline but not the human world. When the strange beasts from the mountains and seas return to the world, the ancient secrets of hundreds of surnames gradually emerge. Zou Xuan also moved from a temple keeper who only wanted to protect Zoujia Village to a new ancestral court that was guarded by all surnames.
