Li Mo, a modern history graduate student, unexpectedly transmigrates to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and becomes Li Cunxiao, a renowned general of Later Tang. He gradually discovers that his transmigration is part of the future Temporal Administration’s “Civilization Seed Project”: human genes have been implanted into historical figures to observe the evolution of civilization. When Li Mo tries to change history, he triggers the “Guixu Central Brain’s” elimination protocol, sending time-space fissures out of control and entangling future technology with mystical civilization. In his fight against the Central Brain, Li Mo and the female general Mo Yu uncover a millennia-old interstellar secret: after the Guixu starship crashed on Earth, its first captain hid an uncontaminated seed of civilization in human bloodlines. Facing pursuit by the Galactic Federation, the threat of a crystallizing plague, and power struggles within his own ranks, Li Mo must choose between protecting humanity and accepting modification by a superior civilization. In the end, he redraws the star chart with his mortal body, using the flame of the most primitive farming civilization to win humanity a place amid interstellar hegemony.
