The Gravedigger's Sword

In the Thousand Li, the dead do not always rest.

When martial artists die with something unfinished, their final intentions can linger inside their corpses, poisoning the land around them. The Hall of the Ninth Rite exists to finish what they could not.

For eight years, seventeen-year-old Doha has hidden an impossible gift: he can hear the techniques of the dead in a single breath.

When a nameless swordsman begins souring an entire village, Doha is forced to reveal his secret and becomes a rite-keeper himself.

Then another corpse arrives.

A murdered young martial artist carrying an unfinished technique that was never his. Someone has discovered how to move the intentions of the dead. And Doha may be the only one who can uncover why.