At the gilt auction on the Bund in Shanghai, a Yin Shang bronze goblet with dragon patterns tore the curtain between two worlds. Gu Mingyue, a hybrid who can control ice and fire at the same time, found that the dragon scales under her cheongsam were coveted by many forces - the lawful ones wanted her dead, the reformists wanted her alive, and the human auctioneer Lu Qingya's dragon-slaying order had been against her beating dragon crystal heart.
When the broken stained glass reflected the faces of three hundred clones, and when the bronze door of the Kunlun Temple showed the afterimage of her imprisoned mother, she was shocked to realize that the laboratory fire twenty years ago was actually the beginning of a plan to kill gods across time and space. Traveling between the Dragon Gene Ranch and the Quantum Corridor, every decision is rewriting the equation of civilization's survival: Should we inherit Zhu Jiuyin's divine personality and reshape order, or should we detonate the earth's core and return everything to zero? The mother's last words sealed in the jade brooch hide a truth more cruel than killing gods - the earth is just a petri dish under the observation of advanced civilizations.
At this moment, the bronze scepter on the back of the moon pierced the night sky, and the starry auction house 40 billion light-years away once again lit up with neon lights. When new human beings begin to dream that they are wearing golden masks and bidding, those erased reincarnations are seeping fangs from the cracks in time...
