Chronicles of the Underworld: The Seal Awakens on a Bewitched Night

[A decisive heroine whose killing intent and fate seal complement each other × a life-devouring navel-piercing combat system × the canonical history of the Spirit Vein Universe]

On the day Xu Zhaoheng was born with a cinnabar mole on her left ear, the clan elder’s pronouncement echoed through the ancestral hall:

“Those with ears small as shells can commune with the netherworld. A cinnabar mark that brings death can subdue the cycle of reincarnation. This is a fate where killing intent and fate seal complement each other, with Heaven’s punishment upon her!”

When she awakens amid a bloody rain at the Lüzu Temple:

- The lightning-struck sword, forged by imperial decree in the Yongle era and lying beside her pillow, oozes fresh beads of blood. In its reflection, a Ming dynasty jinshi with her face drives a human thighbone into the ancestral stele!

- The white-jade Maitreya Buddha in her arms shatters, and the Nine Nether Atlas falls out. It marks seven soul-devouring wells where lamp oil is made by refining the living!

- A sudden burning pain sears below her navel. Dark-red contract markings appear: her mother actually carved out her own heart and used its blood to bind Xu Zhaoheng to the descendant of her enemy as a pain-sharing symbiote!

The fate of those who commune with the netherworld was never simply to subdue demons…

·Pain at the navel is measured in levels and serves as an energy gauge: the greater the pain, the more devastating Heaven’s Judgement arrows become!

·Use a scholar’s bones as a shield to withstand a fallen Buddha: the mountains-and-rivers pattern reflects 80% of the damage, but stops working as soon as you leave the ground!

·Sail against the current on a resentment-fueled blood boat through the Yellow Springs: every hundred li traveled burns ten years of your life!

When the “True Eye of the Nine Netherworlds” opens above the city, she finally understands:

The so-called six-hundred-year feud between the Daoist sects was actually a game of the twin sages, Lüzu and the Fallen Buddha.

And the final flame that will illuminate the cycle of reincarnation…

Must use the spine of one who communes with the netherworld as its wick, and the heart’s blood of an enemy as its oil!

[The canonical history of the Spirit Vein Universe: the blood war begins]