Tales of Miaojiang: The Gu Master

“Tie the threads of love, plant the love worm. The faithless man's bones will break, his belly will rot.”

An Yuyang accidentally meets A Yi, a young woman from the Miao region. They fall in love, but an accident turns An Yuyang into a faithless man. He has no idea that A Yi has planted a love worm deep inside him, one that will not rest until he is dead.

To rid himself of the worm, An Yuyang joins forces with the mysterious recluse Ding Xingzhi, Liu Yan'er, and others, and ventures deep into southern Xinjiang to uncover its secrets. But he unexpectedly falls victim to a Golden Silkworm Gu as well. With two gu curses eating away at him, An Yuyang is on the brink of death. Then a chance discovery of the King of Ji Gu Tomb rekindles his hope of survival!

Millennium-old gu worms, Daoist mechanisms, silkworm chrysalises that never decay, and armies of gu-infected people appear one after another. With the military and foreign forces also involved, An Yuyang and his companions are trapped in the treacherous, ever-shifting King of Ji Gu Tomb, unable to escape...