Two people died at the hot spring resort.
They were human traffickers, and their deaths were horrific: their stomachs had been ripped open, and each had been killed by the other.
As it happened, just days earlier, the two of them had sold Lin Fengmian's sister to a remote village. The police provided two clues: a recording of her suicide, and a text message sent by her.
The voice in the recording wasn't her sister's.
But the message from her sister told the traffickers to take her to a village called Xijiang.
Following the clues bit by bit, Lin Fengmian discovered that everyone who entered Xijiang Village disappeared.
What kind of secret could a remote village tucked into a mountain hollow be hiding?
Legend has it that if a body with an ominous fate is buried in an ominous place at an ominous hour, and a secret formation is used to assist the process, it becomes a corpse nurtured by Yin energy.
Yin energy seeps into its bones, yet its flesh never decays. It can steal vitality from every direction, leaving the places it visits parched, their plants withered and all things transformed. It feeds on humans, and its skeletal body roams the wilderness. Wherever it passes, a thousand miles of land are left barren, bones piled high. Such a creature is known as a Drought Bone.
Reader's Guide
· Supernatural exploration | fantastical concepts | alternate world
· Plot-focused, with romance as a secondary element. The female lead grows over time. She isn't the strongest fighter around, but she's no pushover.
· The male lead is mostly a sidekick, there to support the female lead.
· Ensemble cast. I love every character, and I'll do my best to give them all a proper beginning and end.
Theme: Life goes on.
