The Yellow River's Uncanny Guardian

Ji Muqing is an ordinary medical student, yet he carries the long-lost bloodline of the Yellow River Guard, extinct for three hundred years. On a rainy night at the hospital, vengeful spirits appear, a Daoist priest arrives at his door, and buried secrets of the past are uncovered one by one. The seal at the bottom of the Yellow River is breaking, the crocodile-dragon grows restless, an ancient coffin hides a scheme spanning all ages, and the ancient spirits of the Nine Abysses awaken one after another. To protect the countless people along the riverbanks, the youth takes up half of a river-suppressing token and journeys across the winding Nine Bends of the long river—guiding vengeful souls to peace, subduing water demons, bearing the heavy fate of a River Guardian with his own body, and overturning a chess game that has lasted since the dawn of time. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Yellow River's Uncanny Guardian — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠