[No System + Smart Protagonist + Chinese Folk Traditions + Bone Picker]
Bone pickers are called bone collectors in the north and gold pickers in the south.
Burying the ill-fated and moving the auspicious, washing bones and placing them in urns: this is a shadowy trade passed down for a thousand years.
A tap of a willow-wood bone knife scatters baleful energy and strikes fear into century-old evil spirits!
A handful of old yellow earth mixed with toasted rice suppresses resentment that soars to the heavens!
A gesture from the Secret Guide to Bone Washing chills white bones and stills their resentment!
Song An is the ninth-generation heir to this trade.
But in an age when cremation is widespread, the bone-picking trade has fallen into decline.
Song An thought this craft would barely earn him a living, until a pair of fused bones was unearthed from the Lin family’s ancestral grave!
White fungal threads seeped out beneath an abandoned water tower!
A portrait of his grandfather hung in a basement beneath the century-old Chen family ancestral tomb!
A ranking system for bone vitality? Bone physiognomy inspection files?
It turned out that the entire bone-picking trade concealed a shocking secret!
“The Song family picks bones. We serve no second master, and we leave no broken bones in the pit!”
“Since you dare use the dead in your schemes, I, Song An, will pick every wicked bone in this world clean, one by one!”