Wu Yang was cast aside by a family whose prestige once defined him. He grew up in an orphanage before being adopted. To the world, he is an internationally renowned wine taster with impeccable taste. In secret, however, he wields astonishing martial power inherited from a prehistoric civilization. With dual master's degrees in biology and information engineering, he can discern mysteries invisible to ordinary people.
As he searches for the truth behind his parents' abandonment, he is drawn into a family blood feud that has lasted a thousand years. The fire of revenge burns in his heart, but fate places in his hands the Ghost King Ink Jade, which can summon souls, and a prophecy from the Myriad Forms Furnace foretelling the cycle of world destruction. He is torn between his desire to kill his biological father with his own hands and his duty to stop the world from collapsing.
Wine cellars around the globe and the hidden realms of Daxia become his battlegrounds. He brings a wine taster's extraordinary senses into combat: a drop of wine lets him anticipate a deadly attack, a wineglass becomes a lethal blade, and the entire environment turns into a chessboard for his formations. Prehistoric power awakens in the modern age, and skill and violence fuse within him in a strange new way.
The secrets hidden deep within Earth, a lost prehistoric civilization, and an imminent prophecy of world destruction... Wu Yang's quest to find his father and exact revenge is also a desperate gamble to save the world. Can he find a glimmer of redemption amid the ashes of hatred?
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