Young Taoist Zhou Yuan, a side-branch heir of the Maoshan lineage, takes a routine “ancestral-grave backlash” job—and is pulled into a twenty-year-old sect taboo. Merchant’s daughter He Rui’s parents lie comatose. Zhou Yuan uses virgin blood to dispel yin energy, but on a night journey he meets hopping corpses, a red-veiled ghost, and senior sister Qing Ni sealed in the He family tomb. The truth is cruel: twenty years ago the master dual-cultivated forbidden arts with Qing Ni to prolong his life and suffered the backlash. After his death, Qing Ni refused to wait for doom—she hollowed out the He tomb, sealed herself in a coffin, and waited for it to be opened so she could drain men’s essence and become a ghost immortal. Another red-veiled ghost also covets Zhou Yuan’s yang essence. The sect’s lewd arts rebound; fellow disciples turn on each other; both realms hunt his essence. Zhou Yuan allies with He Rui, clinging on with unorthodox arts, hopping corpses, and what little power remains—walking the line between being drained dry and striking back. A tale of fellow disciples slaughtering one another over forbidden dual cultivation—and of desire, survival, and backlash.
Young Taoist Zhou Yuan, a side-branch heir of the Maoshan lineage, takes a routine “ancestral-grave backlash” job—and is pulled into a twenty-year-old sect taboo. Merchant’s daughter He Rui’s parents lie comatose. Zhou Yuan uses virgin blood to dispel yin energy, but on a night journey he meets hopping corpses, a red-veiled ghost, and senior sister Qing Ni sealed in the He family tomb. The truth is cruel: twenty years ago the master dual-cultivated forbidden arts with Qing Ni to prolong his life and suffered the backlash. After his death, Qing Ni refused to wait for doom—she hollowed out the He tomb, sealed herself in a coffin, and waited for it to be opened so she could drain men’s essence and become a ghost immortal. Another red-veiled ghost also covets Zhou Yuan’s yang essence. The sect’s lewd arts rebound; fellow disciples turn on each other; both realms hunt his essence. Zhou Yuan allies with He Rui, clinging on with unorthodox arts, hopping corpses, and what little power remains—walking the line between being drained dry and striking back. A tale of fellow disciples slaughtering one another over forbidden dual cultivation—and of desire, survival, and backlash.
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