Ten thousand years ago, the Dragon Clan joined all its strength, and the Twelve Ancestral Dragons gouged out their own hearts to forge a seal, imprisoning the Outer Demons in a rift in space-time.
Ten thousand years later, the young Lin Xuan awakens from humble beginnings, bearing a mysterious dragon mark, unaware that he is the Cycle Key foretold by the Dragon Clan, destined to rewrite cause and effect.
Li Qingxuan, the Ice-Wing Dragon Maiden, wields the Frost Soul and shares a bloodline bond with him. His senior sister Mu Qingxue, reduced to a remnant soul, burns through what remains of her spirit to show him the way to break the deadlock.
From the lava of Flame Dragon Valley to the Wind Dragon Illusion, from the Thunder Prison Abyss to the River of Time-Sand, the two uncover one astonishing truth after another: the calamity of the Outer Demons is actually a defiant game of fate laid out by the Ancestral Dragons over thirty thousand years!
Bronze nails seal the anchors of space-time, the Dragon Clan's remains conceal a closed loop of cause and effect, and the Twelve Earthly Branches Formation is threaded with soulfire woven from good and evil. The moment Lin Xuan inserts the bronze key into the dragon mark on his neck, the phantom of the prehistoric battlefield overlaps with the present. Only then does he realize:
He is both the one who will end it and the one who will begin it.
And in the depths of the void, those scarlet, slit-pupil eyes continue to whisper:
“You think this is the end, but to me, it is only a new beginning.”
**The dragon soul burns anew, and cause and effect are turned upside down. The day the Twelve Earthly Branches return to their places will be the day the heavens are rewritten.**
(This novel blends Eastern dragon mythology with time-space reincarnation, using sweeping prose to depict the ultimate clash between good intentions and destiny, and reveal the shocking truth behind “sacrifice” and “reincarnation.”)
