Shi Yan’s Millennium Killing Scheme: The Jioming Lock

In the twenty-fourth year of the Wanli reign, a bronze strange slip appeared on the black market and caused three craftsmen to kneel and turn into blood figurines. And I am the only one who can touch it without dying. My left eye sees into the netherworld, my right hand can solve countless mechanisms, yet I cannot break the blood curse of the Feng family: no one lives past thirty-five.

When the bronze puppet left behind by my father awakens at midnight and spits out a jade huang engraved with “the yanshi returns,” I finally learn that I was born to be the living key that opens that “gate of immortality”...