As the evil Shadow Master Ting creates a poison that paralyzes humans and kills them after 8 hours, his plot to create a diversion while he steals the four artifact weapons from the kingdom looks set to go unnoticed. The test subjects, a brother and sister, were caught and used in his experiment.
When the sister's life was threatened, her brother drank the poison in order to save her and died within 8 hours, returning 12 hours after as a Jiang Shi (living dead).
While the evil Shadow Master Ting followed through his attempts to steal the artifact weapons, the sister was on a mission to rescue her affected brother and in doing so, found Taoist Liang in Su Zhou who cast a spell upon the cursed brother in order to ease his suffering.
Although the brother cannot be cured by this spell and brought back to life, you can help feed him and rejuvenate his energy by killing monsters. The Jiang Shi, found on the
scene map, can absorb the dead monsters life essence, thus protecting innocent villagers from attack and keeping The Cursed Brother in a state of 'zombification' for yet another day…