The Immortal Hunt

The Inner and Outer Worlds: Beneath the "real" world we inhabit, or intertwined with it, lies an "inner world" made up of ancient legends, forbidden knowledge, remnants of divine power, and exotic beasts and spirits. This inner world is not entirely separate from reality. It connects to or seeps into it through various "nodes," such as ancient tombs, ruins, specific locations, unusual objects, inherited bloodlines, and special rituals. The Hidden History of Huaxia: Beyond the official historical record lies a "secret history" that has been deliberately concealed or forgotten. From the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, and pre-Qin alchemists, to the Qin and Han quests for immortality, Tang and Song alchemy, and Ming and Qing secret sects, every glorious dynasty had rulers or hidden groups obsessively seeking eternal life or control over supernatural powers. Behind many major historical events lurked nonhuman forces. The Truth of the Classic of Mountains and Seas: It is not a collection of myths and tales of the supernatural, but a lost civilization's gazetteer, bestiary, and record of energies. Most of the strange mountains, waters, spirits, and exotic beasts recorded in the book are real or once existed, hidden in forbidden realms beyond ordinary people's reach, such as folded spaces, the world beneath the earth, and the deep-sea abyss, or embodied forms of certain energies and laws. It is an important map and key to the secrets of immortality.