During the Tianbao era of the High Tang, the bronze bells at the Tutu County yamen ring in unison at midnight, and a blood-written prophecy foretells, “The Hound Calamity is coming.” As the poet Li Bai lies dying, mysterious star patterns appear on his ankles, while a jade heart within him conceals the key to the universe. A thousand years later, the Soul-Suppressing Nail at the Nanjing Museum oozes black tendrils that devour technology. Scientist Lin Yuhan discovers that Tang relics resonate with modern quantum physics, while overlapping coordinates in time and space weave Chang’an and Nanjing, history and the future, into a fateful loop.
A battle for the survival of civilization, spanning a thousand years, quietly begins:
- **Li Bai’s** poems become interstellar coordinates, while the beating heart inside the jade-heart casket is a “star gate” that can tear through time and space;
- **Lin Yuhan’s** right eye transforms into a bronze armillary sphere, and the particle collider in the quantum laboratory falls into sync with prophecies from the High Tang;
- **A Yuan** bears binary markings, and both her past and present lives are swept into the recursive cycle of the Omega element;
- **Yang Guifei’s** white silk seeps with blood prophecies, while the resentment at Mawei Station rewrites reality through quantum crystals;
- **Persian star worms** lie dormant for a thousand years, turning civilizations into poetry and harvesting them at maturity to become Omega crystals…
When An Lushan’s antimatter saber cleaves open a black hole, and the palindromic structure of the Xuanji Diagram reshapes the laws of the universe, Li Bai, Lin Yuhan, and A Yuan face the ultimate choice in a rift in time and space: should they let higher-dimensional observers purge civilization, or wield poetry as a sword and carve a new creation poem from the sea of entropy at heat death?
