Ancient Curse of the Undead

Ancient Curse of the Undead is a long-running wuxia-xianxia serialized novel first published on Zongheng Chinese Network by the web author Xuanyuan Bo. The story is set in a cultivation world known as the "Divine Turtle Continent": after heaven and earth were opened, living beings cultivated into spirits and monsters, and ten thousand clans fought one another, until the long-lived Zhenren Changshou, who possessed the "Nether Eye," comprehended the "Ancient Curse of the Undead" and the "Ancient Forging Secret Curse" from remnants of ancient scrolls, suppressed demons and monsters with the power of curses, and forged artifacts to establish order—only then was the world settled. Zhenren Changshou classified the most powerful portion, the "Ancient Curse of the Undead," as a forbidden art and sealed it, scattering it across the continent. Thousands of years later, the Divine Turtle Mountain lineage had split into five branches—the Main Lineage, the Wanbi Escort Agency, Songzhou City, the Valley of Forgetfulness, and Huifeng Mountain—while the continent held thirty-six great cities and seventy-two small cities, most of whose lords were descendants of Zhenren Changshou's disciples. Just when the world believed a golden age had arrived, an excavation of ancient ruins brought a remnant scroll of the "Ancient Curse of the Undead" back into the world. Legend holds that this curse does not follow conventional cultivation methods; with essence and blood as the catalyst, anyone can gain formidable power in an extremely short time. Using the reversal of "reckless youth fifteen years ago, cold slaughterer of heaven fifteen years later" as its thread, the novel follows the protagonist Wujing (and the related character Wunian) in pursuing the eight scattered volumes of the "Ancient Curse of the Undead," exploring the boundary between entering evil from righteousness and entering demonhood from the Dao, as well as the struggles and choices of those toyed with by fate. The book runs about one million characters and is complete.