The Ghost Buries the Coffin

Ghost Coffin Bearers is a supernatural suspense web novel by Miaoqimiao, a contracted author on Heiyan Reading Network. Serialization began in 2014 and concluded in December 2021, spanning 362 chapters and approximately 1.27 million Chinese characters. The story is told in the first person: the narrator was born dead and raised by his adoptive father inside a coffin, surviving on underworld toll money the older man procured. After his adoptive father departs, the narrator, desperate to stay alive, enters the Den of Wronged Spirits and performs three kneelings and nine kowtows before a coffin, taking a corpse as his master. He thus becomes an heir of the Coffin Sect, earning his living by carrying coffins and burying ghosts, entangled like generations of sect members before him with all manner of bizarre and malevolent entities. Sealing corpses at Nine Peaks, drifting coffins on a sea of blood, building cities from white bone—he buries ghosts, men, and demons alike, every step fraught with deadly peril and fresh terror. As the plot unfolds, the protagonist battles supernatural beings such as skin monsters and a flood dragon in a well, gradually encountering the folkloric world formed by the strange book A Register of a Hundred Coffins and the ritual implement known as the coffin nail, while each burial case draws him deeper into the sect's hidden affairs. Only when he finally deciphers the ghost children's rhyme he heard upon taking his master does he discover that the Coffin Sect conceals an earthshaking secret. Through its supernatural events, the novel explores loyalty and the boundary between life and death in the world of occult practitioners, with the main thread converging in the final chapter, "The Legend of Coffin Bearing—Come With Me."