In the chaos of the Republican era, a thousand-year-old corpse stitcher returns to repay an old debt and restore the mutilated body of Marshal Lin. Using bone and golden needles, he uncovers the truth behind the marshal’s death. When armed enemies storm the mourning hall, he makes the corpse itself point to the killer. The real mastermind is a senior official working with a foreign sorcerer. With 72 steel needles, the protagonist breaks the evil formation and helps the young marshal expose a deadly power-grab conspiracy.
