Modern young man Lin Yuan is accidentally caught in a spatial rift at Yuxu Peak on Mount Kunlun. His soul inhabits the body of a simple-minded youth being sacrificed by a cult in a secret realm of Kunlun in another world. As crimson moonlight drenches the star altar formed by 365 pillars of black iron, the ancestral jade pendant on his chest transforms into the Kunlun Mirror, activating a law of twin reflections between the real world and Kunlun in the other world. Qing Li, a woman in green who appears in the mirror, reveals a shocking secret: this secret realm, coveted by the Blood Moon Wolf Clan, the Netherworld Shadow Clan, and the Void Insect Clan, is in fact the ancestral land where the heroic spirit of the first Human Emperor and the primordial ferocious beast Taotie are sealed.
As Lin Yuan struggles with the coexistence of two souls, he awakens a Witch Clan battle body. In an underground river along the dragon vein, he encounters the damaged spirit of the Xuanyuan Sword, which turns out to be the remnant soul of his father, an archaeologist who disappeared in the real world. As the Nine Stars nears alignment, strange phenomena erupt throughout the secret realm: a black-robed priest tears off his mask to reveal a demonic face with compound eyes; two foreign bloodlines within the cult's holy son, Bai Ye, savagely devour one another; and beneath the music of Yue Chan's Nine Heavens jade-ringed zither, the human race's holy maiden hides a high-level conspiracy involving insect-clan infiltration. Guided by the mirror spirit Qing Li's calculations, Lin Yuan traverses twelve layers of illusions, unaware that another shadow in the mirror is watching his mind. It is the sealed evil thoughts of the first Human Emperor, plotting to use him as a sacrifice to restart the cycle of time and space.
When the Hall of Heroic Spirits emerges from the void and Taotie is about to break through the seal of the Nine Netherworlds' Yellow Springs Eye, Lin Yuan discovers that the real world is merely a reflected projection of the other world. The ten years of adventures he experienced in that world amounted to only ten days in reality. Even more shocking truths follow: the Blood Moon Wolf Clan are actually guardians of the Human Emperor's bloodline, Taotie is an ancient mount corrupted by evil, and the Kunlun Mirror itself is a prison for benevolent and evil thoughts...
This is a new artist's work, so please be considerate and don't send me a razor blade. 😄