Dragonbone Crossing

The world is divided between tomb raiders and tomb wardens. Tomb raiders seek wealth; tomb wardens keep evil forces at bay.

My ancestors served under Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming as members of the mysterious Geomantic Tomb-Warding Guard. Their duty was not to build tombs, but to use mountains and waterways to seal the inexplicable "filth" in the ancient tombs of former dynasties underground forever.

By the Republican era, only the protagonist's grandfather remained, all alone, guarding a fragmentary copy of the Register of Water-Dragon Wardings.