Twelve-year-old Lin Xiao never imagined that one afternoon spent wiping the family heirloom bronze compass would plunge him into a deadly whirlpool where timelines collided.
When neon lights reflect across an ancient battlefield, the homeroom teacher's ID photo appears on a wanted poster in another world, and cries for help from thirty years ago come from behind the door of the school's sports equipment room, this sixth grader at Municipal No. 3 Elementary School finally realizes:
The jade pendant he carries, Taiwei, is the lost key to the Ninefold Heavenly Palace;
The mother he thought had disappeared is a descendant of the guardians who protect the cracks in time and space;
And the glowing red lotus birthmark is making him a target in both the present world and the other realm.
