[A star falls upon the wilds. He forges flint into a blade and exposes the final lie behind abdication]
Geologist Yun Qi transmigrates into the Shennong tribe, ravaged by wildfires, and is branded a "disaster star born of heavenly thunder."
The moment the shaman cuts open his windbreaker with a bone knife...
A zipper tears through the long, benighted night, and antibiotics from his first-aid kit become the first glimmer of civilization.
- Use a flint striker to burn away the fraud of "fire bestowed by the gods"
- Use a bronze compass carriage to tear through Chi You's shamanic fog formation
- Carve the star map from the Zhuanxu Calendar into a Jiuli girl's tattoos
- The benevolent rule of Emperor Yan, who tasted a hundred herbs, is drowned in the blood and fire of Banquan
- The abdication system shatters into political schemes beneath the shadows of the Taosi Observatory
- The explosives he gives Yu the Great to blast open Longmen Mountain ultimately bring down the foundations of tribal republics
Over fifty years of transmigration, he drives the leap from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, yet watches a colossal cauldron of centralized power rise from blood and fire.
When King Yu casts Jiuli prisoners of war into the cauldron's designs, Yun Qi lights the final signal fire atop Mount Kunlun...
Among the flints buried beneath ten thousand years of wind and snow lies an answer, tempered sharper than bronze.
> "The so-called golden age of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors was nothing but a survival war lasting three hundred years."
> "And the wild man will, in the end, become a godslayer."
