Liu Bowen, a prodigy of the early Ming dynasty, spent his life severing the dragon veins across the land. Little did he know, he had long been a pawn in an alien civilization’s experiments!
Born beneath two suns, with a left eye stained by dragon blood that could peer into the netherworld, he wielded a reverse-written copy of the Book of Burial to unravel the yin and yang. One chapter of the Classic of Spring and Autumn Illuminations summoned a bolt of heavenly lightning that shattered the flagpole at the imperial examination hall... From that moment on, he was drawn into a shocking conspiracy spanning six hundred years and multiple universes: the dragon veins of China were actually an “ecological chain” through which aliens controlled Earth!
A sunken ship bearing a White Lotus totem appeared at the bottom of Poyang Lake. A mirage of Penglai revealed the wreckage of a future treasure ship. A frozen dragon head clutched a counterfeit Imperial Jade Seal in its jaws... Liu Ji planned his every move, only to discover that fragments of the Dragon-Slaying Sword had become a Big Dipper QR code, while the pages of ancient books concealed prophecies of modern plagues. Every anomaly was a signal from his hundred reincarnations, urging him to save himself!
Zombies transporting salt, maps made from human skin, twin emperors, and sealed tombs with the living buried inside... Each case is its own eerie, fantastical mystery, yet all are connected to an alien civilization’s observation experiments. When Ming history repeats itself for the ninth time, when a dragon vein transforms into a demon and recites the Song of the Scorched Pancake, and when the Nine Tripods of Yu are found covered in warnings written in English, Liu Ji finally understands: every dragon he slays is a declaration of war against a higher civilization!
Future blood seeps from the First Emperor’s sacrificial altar. Mechanical rumbling echoes from the underground palace of the Xiaoling Mausoleum. The Book of Yuli, held in Liu Bowen’s stone statue, projects a vision of humanity breaking beyond the Milky Way... In this battle spanning time and space, can a mortal wield reincarnation as a blade and sever the shackles of the Heavenly Dao?
The decree has been issued. This time, will he break the Heavenly Dao, or the cycle of fate?
