Miaojiang Past: The Gu Master

"Love threads connect, love gu planted, the faithless man's bones shall break, his belly shall rot." An Yuyang unexpectedly meets A Yi, a Miaojiang girl, and the two fall in love. But an accident turns An Yuyang into a faithless man, unaware that A Yi has planted a love gu deep within him, which will only end with death. To break the gu, An Yuyang meets the mysterious hermit Ding Xingzhi, Liu Yanyan, and other companions. They venture into the southern frontier to uncover secrets, but An Yuyang accidentally falls victim to the golden silkworm gu, leaving him trapped between two gu curses and on the brink of death. However, the accidental discovery of the Ji King's gu tomb ignites a glimmer of hope for survival! Thousand-year-old gu insects, Taoist mechanisms, incorruptible silkworm corpses, and an army of gu-men emerge one after another. Military forces and foreign powers become entangled, plunging An Yuyang and his companions into the treacherous Ji King's gu tomb, from which escape seems impossible... — Description from novelcodex.org