Zhenbei Temple: My Ancestors Have Guarded This Land Forever

In Qingyang City, the northern frontier of the Great Shang Empire, the Jiang family’s three-hundred-year legacy of supreme loyalty has left them utterly decimated on the battlefield. With only the sole surviving heir, Jiang Chen, left to protect the dilapidated Zhenbei Temple, the family is reduced to an easy target for local bullies. When the arrogant young master of the Wang family desecrates the ancestral plaque with filth and murders a loyal elderly servant, Jiang Chen's fingers are broken, and his ancestors are mocked as centuries-old wandering ghosts. Refusing to shed a tear, Jiang Chen uses his own blood to cross off the name "Wang Chong" from the *Jiang Family Book of Grudges*, a volume he has clutched to his chest for a decade. That rainy day marks a supernatural reckoning: the desecrated plaque cleanses itself, a rusted spear erupts from the ancestral altar to slaughter the enemy's steed, and a thunderous voice echoes from the depths of the shrine, declaring that the Wang ancestors were once mere stable hands to the legendary Jiang heroes. As ten ancestral spirit tablets ignite—revealing legendary figures from a bygone era including a sword-wielding drunken immortal, a venomous alchemist, a master smith, and a peerless formation array master—Jiang Chen takes up the Black Tiger Military Talisman. Empowered by his legendary forebears, he sets out to collect every blood debt owed to his family, proving that when pushed to the brink, the dead ancestors fight hardest for their own.