The Secrets of Wubao Mountain

For a thousand years, Five Treasures Mountain had lain hidden in the depths of the wilderness. Legend had it that five ancient artifacts buried there could reverse the flow of time. Lin Wan, an archaeology student searching for her missing father, ventured alone into the cursed woods and uncovered the bizarre secrets of a Republican-era expedition. Twenty years earlier, an archaeological team led by her father, Lin Qingyang, had unearthed a bronze bell, after which every member of the team died suddenly. Bloody emblems appeared on their corpses, and the symbols were somehow connected to the Bronze Chronology Experiment. As she explored deeper, Lin Wan allied herself with Shen Yan, a mysterious fellow traveler, unaware that she was stepping into a conspiracy spanning a century. Beneath Five Treasures Mountain, the roots of a bronze tree connected the sacred tree of Sanxingdui and the jade cong of Liangzhu, forming an energy network known as the “Bronze Chronology.” Lin Wan's genetic chain was, astonishingly, the perfect Host. The Monitor's mechanical arm crystallized, the Jiuli tribe's blood-mud cycle continued, and an army of clones awakened... Every deadly struggle brought them closer to the truth: her father had willingly become the first Corpse-Transcendent Immortal, all to delay his daughter's awakening. When the vertical-eye mask activated Sanxingdui's star map and the Liangzhu jade cong resonated, awakening Corpse-Transcendent Immortals around the world, Lin Wan had to blow up the main trunk of the bronze tree atop Five Treasures Mountain to end the cycle of the higher-dimensional harvesters. The final answer, one that would overturn everything she knew, lay in her mother's last words from the laboratory, the bronze heart in Shen Yan's chest, and the blood-mud code of the Jiuli altar...