Under the deep sea, Dayu's cauldron suppressed not demons, but the original fire of China.
Lu Zhaobai, the youngest classics compiler in the Hanlin Academy, received half a blood-stained bronze fragment on the night his father died suddenly. When the treasure fleet sailed into the Guixu sea area, he realized that the keels of the twelve giant ships were all melted with Jiuding fragments, and what his father guarded with his life was actually the fire of civilization sealed by Xia Yu in the tripod.
When Lu Zhaobai used acupuncture silver needles as the key and borrowed the power of the Nine Stars to restart the giant cauldron of Guixu, what rose into the sky was not the imperial seal or the Xuanyuan Sword, but the "Shennong's Sutra" wrapped in a rice seed pot, recording the shift of the twenty-eight constellations. The oracle bone turtle strategy, and even half a volume of the "Huangdi's Foreign Canon" written in crocodile silk... It turns out that Jiuding was never an important weapon for ruling the country, but a drifting bottle, Noah's Ark, and a backup of civilization left by our ancestors in all desperate moments.
Amidst the wind and thunder in the Seven Seas, Lu Zhaobai stood on the wreckage of the treasure ship and scattered the fragments of the Nine Cauldrons into the stormy waves. Only now did he understand his father's last words: "Let civilization be poured into the sea like salt, rather than being offered in temples." When twelve empty ships carried envoys from various countries back, the roar of bronze bells came from the depths of the ruins - this is a royal way that is more eternal than the jade seal passed down to the country.
