Only when the heart bearing the crest of the Ninth Family began beating in his chest did Tang Xiuming realize he had become the living vessel of a thousand-year conspiracy. An oncologist at Shanghai Renji Hospital, he is swept into a supernatural war spanning three realms on the night he transplants a heart into a crime lord.
Deep in the dark web, nine extraordinary families control the world's underground lifelines. The Luo family's organ black market deals in transplants that can awaken supernatural powers. The Dracula family's blood products conceal contracts of immortality. The Bronze Knife Coins of the Knife-Debt Collectors can buy assassinations, even of gods. And in the shadows untouched by neon, the cauldron of Qin Shi Huang's elixir of immortality still simmers with the souls of the dead, while a Maya star map guides visitors from the depths of space who devour civilizations.
The Rahu Sun-Eater mark on Tang Xiuming's chest makes him a living key hunted by every faction. Wall Street financial magnates use algorithms based on the Hetu and Luoshu to siphon away national fortunes. The Corpse King of western Hunan auctions Tai Sui flesh in the metaverse. Beneath Mount Fuji, the awakened Yamata no Orochi cultivates a demon core by swallowing nuclear waste. To survive, he must master:
• The Twenty-Eight Mansions killing formation inside a Warring States jade cong
• The radioactive breath of Chernobyl's mercury dragon
• The interstellar navigation chart in Sanxingdui's bronze sacred tree
Only then can he tear through the blood-red veil of the Nine Heavens in the ultimate struggle between supernatural powers, the criminal underworld, and ancient civilizations.
[Highlights]
☯ Cyber-cultivation, where transplanted supernatural organs awaken ancient bloodlines
☯ Use blockchain to set up feng shui formations and livestream exorcisms to increase your cultivation
☯ A subsidiary mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang's tomb beneath a Macau casino, where the stakes are years of life
☯ Summon the battle spirit of Xing Tian amid a New York gang war
When Rahu's astral power swallows the last glimmer of moonlight, the beings lurking in the cracks of human civilization will finally…
