The Dragon Falls Across the Nine Lands

A reckless experiment by the Space-Time Administration sends the Son of Heaven, Mongke, to attack Diaoyutai, where he is killed when a tungsten alloy warhead pierces him. History spirals out of control: the Western Liao, Western Xia, and Jin, all of which had already been destroyed, rise again and restore their states. Dali seizes the opportunity to launch a surprise attack northward, taking Jingxiang and Sichuan. The world is now divided among seven rival states: the Mongol Yuan, Liao, Western Xia, Jin, Tibet, Dali, and Song. With the Son of Heaven fallen, nine pieces of his body scatter across the land. It is said that each country claimed one, but there are nine pieces and only seven states. Where are the other two? Siam? Korea? Japan? Khwarazm? Somewhere else? Faced with the distortion of time and space, the head of the Space-Time Administration enters the altered timeline himself, hoping to set history straight with the physics, mathematics, and advanced technology of the future. But as time passes, he discovers that the tungsten alloy warhead that struck Mongke has fused with his imperial dragon aura, transforming into a living being: the Stone Dragon’s Fall, which keeps disrupting attempts to correct history, often by accident. This forces him to reconsider the principles behind his efforts to repair the past. He wants to know what will happen if the Stone Dragon’s Fall is left to its own devices, yet fears that history may veer completely off course and produce unimaginable horrors. Torn between these concerns, the two embark together on a journey to “witness” history.