The Azure Wolf Star Chart: Guixu

In the eighth year of the Zhizheng era, the Yuan Empire's star was fading. One night, the Imperial Astronomical Bureau observed strange movements in the Ziwei constellation. The fierce Mongol general Huo Xinglie led a mixed cavalry force on a western campaign, carrying Great Yuan gunpowder, Southern Song sea charts, and Persian astrolabes as he set his sights on Europe. On Poland's frozen plains, fire oxen lay in ambush; in Hungary's poisonous marshes, sacred scarabs went up in flames; deep in the Black Forest, Mohist mechanisms clashed with German steam colossi. Every campaign concealed fragments of a star chart left behind by Xu Fu's voyage east. When the Liaodong weapons scandal, Egyptian scarabs, and secret Venetian letters were woven into a single web, Huo Xinglie finally realized that the western campaign was not about conquering new lands, but about unraveling a thousand-year game played by a higher civilization. Amid the grinding of bronze gears, the ultimate truth beneath the pyramids would soon tear history apart: would Mongol cavalry conquer the world, or would the flame of Huaxia ignite the cosmos? Beneath the banner of the gray wolf, a celestial path forged in blood and fire pointed straight toward the Guixu abyss described by Liezi, where stars themselves were devoured...