The Copper Coin Patterns in His Palm: Starting as a Tomb Guardian

Chen Ping'an, with only 11.5 yuan in his pocket, spent 29 days at a City God Temple used-book stall searching for what his grandfather had asked him to find before dying—a wordless booklet of twelve pages, each depicting a copper coin. Before he could decipher it, the Qian family from Panjiayuan came knocking. Qian Wanguan, with two bodyguards, broke into his rental room to seize the 'Twelve-Pattern Copper Coin' inheritance of the Chen family. In the struggle, the birthmark on Chen Ping'an's palm was activated—his grandfather had planted the first coin, the Dragon-Seeking Coin, into his body at birth. The coin entered his flesh, the pattern moving with his body. He repelled Qian Wanguan, but the latter left a soil mole cricket downstairs—a monster raised from human corpses. Using the Dragon-Seeking Coin, Chen Ping'an found the monster's weak spot and killed it with one strike. From his grandfather's relics, he deciphered the second clue: the second coin, the Evil-Suppressing Coin, was hidden in the old Earth God Temple west of the city. The Qian family was also searching for it. Behind each of the twelve copper coins lay the sealed remnant soul of an ancient mythical beast—Pixiu, Xiezhi, Bixi... Whoever gathered all twelve patterns would open an ancient tomb that suppressed the beasts' true bodies. Chen Ping'an had no choice. If the Qians wanted to steal, he would guard. The legacy passed down from his ancestors could not end with him.