(Not brainless, no harem, no system, unconventional and refreshing article, please read with caution)
In the winter of the third year of the Holy Calendar of Wuzhou, the Luohe River outside Luoyang City was frozen for hundreds of miles. Within seven days, seventeen old river-building craftsmen died suddenly one after another, with no injuries on their bodies and peaceful faces, except for a dark snake pattern that could not be washed away on their palms. Rumors are spreading in the market - the ghost of the snake spirit is claiming its life, and the punishment from Heluo is coming to the world.
Di Renjie led Li Yuanfang to investigate the case and found that all the deceased were the core craftsmen who built the underground tunnel five years ago. Shen Ya, a young scribe, brought the remnants of Li Chunfeng's old paintings from his family into the situation, and used his exquisite poisonous theory to debunk the illusion of "ghost pattern and heavenly punishment". However, during the in-depth investigation, he came across an even more shocking truth: beneath the ice of the Luohe River, deep in the ancient canal built during the Zhenguan period, there was a black spring that Li Chunfeng had not publicly recorded.
There is something breathing in the spring.
When the cross-currents of two parties, the machinations of emperors, underground poisonous techniques, and ancient canal institutions were uncovered, a century-old conspiracy spanning two generations, using heaven's secrets to confuse the world, and using water veins to chaos the dynasty, emerged. And Shen Ya discovered that there was an everlasting thread connected between the growing snake pattern on his palm and the darkness under the spring.
Everything is false, but the human heart is true. There are no punishments from ghosts, gods or gods in this world, only the schemes of mortals. When all the conspiracies were stripped away and all the truth was revealed, Shen Ya finally understood the weight of his father's last words - Yuan Tiangang was just the one who took the pictures, and he was not the one who drew the drawings.
