After transmigrating as Shi Jian, Maoshan's youngest senior disciple, he expects to lead his junior brothers in cultivating the Dao and training in peace. But an inscription in the forbidden grounds behind the mountain drags him into a century-old mystery: “Traitor Shi Linsheng, who slaughtered his fellow disciples, expelled from the sect.” “Beware anyone surnamed Shi.”
He shares a surname with the Maoshan traitor who was sealed away a century ago, and his master has kept the truth of his birth from him. An old book hidden beneath his bed, torn-up sect records, and sealing talismans that must be redrawn every three months all hint at an unbreakable link between him and the being beneath the forbidden grounds. His junior brothers know nothing: the lazy Simu, Mamadi, whose alchemy furnace always explodes, Qianhe, gifted at drawing talismans, his steady and reliable ninth junior brother, and Yimei, the senior brother who sees through everything. They are all people he would protect with his life.
Just then, a corpse-mutating incident breaks out in Ping'an Town. Seven people die under mysterious circumstances, a night watchman is found dead at the local shrine, and a mysterious Taoist flees in a panic after leaving behind a talisman. After his master recovers from illness, he orders Shi Jian to take his junior brothers down the mountain to exorcise evil. What seems like an ordinary case leads them to a corpse pit beneath the shrine's statue. The missing butcher has half a soul-locking talisman stuffed in his mouth.
Yin energy floods the town, zombies lure people into the shrine, and a mastermind lurking in the shadows closes in at every turn. As the seal on the forbidden grounds quietly loosens and the curse of the Shi family comes to light, will this secret-burdened senior disciple become a sword guarding the Daoist sect, or fall victim to the same calamity that befell his predecessor a century ago?
Chapter 19: Have you written down your age? It wasn't 19 years old at the beginning. How did it become 12 years old now? Should he be 24 years old after 5 years?