All Souls Burial Abyss

The C-shaped mine at the foot of Weizong Mountain in the Qing Dynasty is three hundred feet deep and the air is as thick as paste. Rong Geng is the most inconspicuous mining slave here. He has no spiritual roots and no background. He even deserves to be called "Gengzi". There was only one way for him to survive: talk less, lower his head more, and pretend to be dead when others ran away. Until that mining accident, he dug out a broken ancient book from a crack in the rock wall. The book has no cover, the pages are like leather, and the words appear on their own. It does not explain, does not promise, it only offers quotations - "To feel the energy of death, the price is: three days of life"; "To avoid disaster, the price is: half a day of life". Every time he uses it, Rong Geng gets a brown spot on the back of his hand, his nails turn yellow and thick, and white hair grows on his temples. On his seventeen-year-old bones, he had grown twenty-seven-year-old skin ahead of schedule. There are more than just spirit stones under the mine. There are dark red blood borders, granules growing out of the rock walls, and gray-robed men who specialize in "collecting" human blood to fill pits. The handymen would disappear silently, and their names would be drawn in circles on the accounting books, with dots in the circles, like eyes. Rong Geng just wants to live. But what the fragment wanted was not his loyalty, but his longevity; what the mine wanted was not his labor, but his blood; and what the thing in the depths of the earth was slowly waking up wanted was his whole person. "Everyone wants him to die. He just wants to live. Even if the price of living is to destroy a world with his own hands." ——Oriental fantasy × Gou Daoliu × folk suspense. A story about a little person who uses longevity as a bargaining chip to fight for survival against an ancient book that cannibalizes people, a cannibalistic mine, and a burial abyss that is about to wake up.