The Coffin Arrives in the Mortal World

Chen Shouyi, a forty-year-old furniture factory worker, loses his job after refusing to embezzle public funds. On the night he returns home, the Gate of Heaven cracks open and a bronze ancient coffin descends, its Big Dipper markings concealing a mystery. The spiritual liquid seeping from the coffin brings a withered potted plant back to life. It also unexpectedly awakens a fragment of the Beidou Burial Scripture within him, causing star patterns to appear on his palm and granting him the ability to control coffins and refine puppets.

After his daughter Mengyao touches the ancient coffin, her spiritual root awakens, but a rejection reaction leaves her unconscious with a high fever. To protect his family, Chen Shouyi risks refining his father's body into a blood-sacrifice puppet. Although it gives him three times the combat power, it entangles him in karmic consequences, and the puppet runs amok and turns on him. Meanwhile, factions including cultivators from the Qingyun Pavilion and remnants of the Hongye Group covet the ancient coffin. A mass reanimation at the cemetery and missions from the Heavenly Dao follow one after another.

The bronze coffin sometimes protects its master and reveals heavenly secrets, and sometimes stirs with strange movements that conceal danger. It projects a fragmentary map of the Gate of Heaven, revealing the secret of the three coffins reopening it. Amid the urban jungle, Chen Shouyi uses his mortal body to balance dark forces and karmic retribution. To protect his wife and daughter, he embarks on a path of fighting hordes of corpses, unraveling the coffin's mysteries, and confronting the Heavenly Dao.