No zongzi, no curses, no golden finger.
In 2010, along the old course of the Yellow River, poor boy Lin Mo becomes the disciple of Old Chen Guai, the old grave robber, and joins the third generation of the Yin trade alongside his fierce senior brother and cold-hearted second senior sister.
Seven-tenths of the danger in the tomb comes from cave-ins, quicksand, corpse miasma, and darkness. The other three-tenths, outside the tomb, comes from robbing and betrayal, treachery among fellow disciples, and the unfathomable nature of people.
They go underground in search of wealth, but a river-quelling map, a twenty-year-old debt, and a lifeline that must not be cut gradually force them down the same path.
The end of a tomb robber's road is the law, the Yellow River, and the chance to turn back before it's too late.