In 2024, at the archaeology livestream room of Jianghai University, Lin Xiaoche clashes with an authoritative professor over the “cultivation patterns” on Sanxingdui’s golden scepter. But after the System grants him the Art of Discernment, he exposes a thousand-year-old fraud. The bronze key left behind by his father and the mystery of the Nine Tripod Cauldrons draw him into a covert struggle spanning the designs on Shang and Zhou dynasty tripods and the truth behind Yu the Great’s flood control.
When the campus belle loses control because of her Blazing Sun Sacred Body, when a blood-red compass in the ghost market awakens the Yellow River dragon’s resentment, and when the loosening seal on the Nine Tripods triggers the awakening of ferocious beasts around the world, Lin Xiaoche discovers that the so-called ancient myths are all cultivation epics from a lost era. With the silver needles of Shennong in his left hand, he suppresses ferocious beasts; with the bronze key in his right, he reawakens the inheritance of the Human Sovereign. In the secret realm of Guixu, he also engages in a deadly contest against Zhou Hongru’s Taotie bloodline.
The truth behind the livestream room’s ban, the turmoil of the spiritual energy tides, the rebirth of the Sky-Piercing Pillar… This is the ultimate collision between a lost civilization and modern technology. The System’s Golden Core Tribulation alert strikes during a press conference, and the entire internet watches him face the tribulation and ascend as the Human Sovereign. The ancient villages of the Shennongjia mountains and the Guixu altar in the Pacific Ocean ultimately point to a shocking conspiracy: the Nine Tripods are no ritual vessels, but locks that suppress ferocious beasts; cultivation is no legend, but an unfinished spark of civilization.
When hordes of ferocious beasts tear through the blood moon and the bronze key shatters into nine pieces, can Lin Xiaoche sustain the Nine Tripods with his life and kindle the dawn of a new era for humanity amid the roars of the Guixu dimension?
