He only wanted to be a quiet tomb raider, but a gravestone chose him, making him the sole inheritor of an ancient seal.
Shen Du was an ordinary second-generation Luoyang-shovel user. His family's traditional trade was digging up graves and raiding tombs. Then one day, in an unmarked ancient tomb, he read the words on a gravestone meant for the living:
"Since you have seen this stele, you must be the chosen one."
From then on, he was swept into a shocking conspiracy that had been unfolding for two thousand years: the Jianmu Seal, the Eight True Scriptures, nine Demon Gods, the clan of stele guardians... And his father, who had supposedly "died raiding a tomb" ten years earlier, was still alive, and had fallen into the hands of his sworn enemy.
He sealed the ancient God of War Xingtian, obtained the Kunlun Mirror from the Queen Mother of the West, and braved the Merfolk City, the Jade Lake on Tianshan, and the Ten Thousand Mountains... Yet every victory came with an even greater mystery.
The third tree root was stolen, his companions were captured, and a traitor of unknown identity lurked among those around him. His sworn enemy said to him, "You think you're saving the world? No. You're just doing someone else's work for them."
Worse still, he began to wonder: Was he truly the inheritor of the seal, or merely a pawn in some much larger game?
