During the Taiping period of the Great Yong Dynasty, there was a Shen's Bone Museum in Shangjing. The owner of the museum, Shen Zhuo, was the third generation descendant of a family of bonesetters. He was known for his superb bone-setting skills and was known as "Shen Yishou".
One day, a peddler with a broken leg was carried into the bone hall. When Shen was setting the bones, he actually took out a bone nail engraved with strange patterns from the opponent's femur. When the salesman woke up, he only said, "Here he is," and then he bled to death. Shen Zhuo was shocked to find that the patterns on the bone nails were exactly the same as the light blue birthmarks on his nine ribs.
That night, Shen Zhuo's ribs were in severe pain, and lines slowly swam under his skin. Father's best friend, the old man He, came to visit and revealed a shocking secret: Shen Zhuo's father did not accidentally fall from his horse and die, but was "bone-removed". The Shen family is one of the "Nine Bone-Keeping Tribes" in ancient times. There is a map fragment hidden in the bones of the descendants of the nine tribes, which can lead to the legendary "Tiangu Mausoleum" when put together. And a mysterious organization called "Wumianlou" is hunting down the descendants of the nine tribes in order and taking their bones to refine weapons.
Shen Zhuo was forced to get involved in this bone arts dispute that spanned thousands of years. He awakened the power of "Bone Retrieval" - he could touch the bones to see the last moments of the deceased, but every time he used it, his own ribs were eroded by "bone erosion". Nine ribs, nine chances, if they are all eaten out, you will die.
From Shangjing to Cangwu, from southern Xinjiang to Guifangling, Shen Zhuo and the shadow puppet master Lu Qingyuan teamed up to find the descendants of Shou Gu from clan to clan, and fought desperately against Wumianlou. The secret arts of the nine tribes appear in turn: bone shadow, bone poison, paper bones, walking corpses, Gu bones... And the real secret of Tiangu Mausoleum is far beyond everyone's imagination.
Bones can talk if you dare to listen.
