The Lifeline Nexus

In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic, in Hancheng.

No one in the martial world could withstand Xie Sandao’s three strikes.

The first shattered your courage, the second ended your life, and the third claimed your soul.

No one had ever seen his fourth strike, because everyone who had had died.

But this time, he drew his blade not to kill, but to save his own life.

An ordinary escort mission led him into an underground ancient city that appeared on no map. An empty blacksmith’s street, a bloodstained apothecary, a mysterious cellar rumbling in the dead of night, and the tomb of a Ming dynasty prince that the Japanese army had secretly been excavating for half a year: every clue pointed to the same name.

The Lifebinding Core.

Legend said it was a pearl that could reverse life and death and open another door.

Legend said it had been sealed away for six hundred years, waiting for someone who was never meant to appear.

When Xie Yunfeng used the blood of the Fengmen lineage to open the massive bronze door, then touched the golden orb of light floating above a nine-tiered platform, he saw the world beyond the door, and he saw himself there.

A face identical to his own, clad in a black robe from six hundred years ago.

The Lifebinding Core had been activated. The door had opened. Something had come back with him.

And from that day on, his eyes were golden.

A story of bloodlines, destiny, and a door that should never have been opened.

A Republican-era suspense adventure × legends of ancient tomb sorcery × the fated journey of a Fengmen blade wielder.