[High-Concept One-Liner]
At midnight, a shadow puppet comes to life and tears open an ancient book’s seal. Armed with the bloodline of Zhulong, a young man travels between the Forbidden City’s underground palace and an interstellar fleet, stitching black holes with Suzhou embroidery and piercing a conspiracy against civilization with the crossbows of the Terracotta Army!
[Deadly Opening Suspense]
On a stormy night, a Warring States-era shadow puppet that should have been locked away in a museum suddenly bursts through a security monitor and grabs a guard by the throat.
A thousand-year-old rhinoceros horn glue boils inside a display case, seeping out blood-red words bearing the grandfather’s dying warning.
And the newly activated “Intangible Cultural Heritage System” on your phone is twisting the ley lines beneath the entire city into a network of veins belonging to a ferocious beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas...
With only 72 hours on the countdown, you discover that the so-called “inheritors of intangible cultural heritage” are actually living sparks buried in human genes by the ancient Zhulong.
[The Core Conflict Erupts]
Liu Yi, a good-for-nothing fourth-year folklore student, touches his family’s ancestral shadow-puppet box, and in an instant:
His right eye becomes Zhulong’s slit-pupiled eye, letting him see the demon veins of Zhuyan coursing beneath the paving stones.
His phone is hijacked by an ancient alchemist AI, and his mission changes from “repair the shadow puppet” to “slay the gods.”
A bronze interstellar compass appears in the museum’s underground palace, while the entire sealing squad led by his grandfather sixty years ago has turned evil.
Pillars of light rise from the world’s seven great intangible heritage sites. The Terracotta Warriors cross wormholes carrying quantum halberds.
He is forced into the most insane battle to defend civilization:
■ Decode a black hole equation aboard a Quanzhou treasure ship using a Nanyin lute.
■ Control nanobot swarms from the Dunhuang Flying Apsaras murals to fight mechanical Taotie.
■ Summon Qin elite soldiers with the lost secret art of “the Shadow Army Crossing the Pass” and battle the Fleet of Betelgeuse.
■ Finally discover that all intangible heritage arts are actually “dimensional suturing techniques” left behind by an alien civilization.
[The Mind-Blowing Twist]
☠️ The strange beasts of the Classic of Mountains and Seas
So pretty