Chen Yan, an ancient porcelain restorer, accidentally discovered a bone china lamp left behind by his uncle. The lamp holder was made of human bones. The black liquid oozing from the missing corners of the dragon pattern reflected on the table a path leading to the mountains in western Hunan. As the lamp was turned on, paper figures turned upside down, pottery pots with finger bones embedded in them, and faceless pottery figurines appeared one after another. Only then did he realize that the lamp was related to a secret that spanned thousands of years - its source pointed directly to the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang deep in the Qinling Mountains.
In order to solve the mystery, Chen Yan found two young men: Lao Qi, a geological exploration expert, and Zhao Shanhe, a descendant of an alchemist. The three of them visited the Qinling Mountains again with bronze talismans, broke into the underground palace from the "dihu" entrance, faced the array of figurines refined from the souls of dead people, and deciphered the relationship between the "Twelve Golden Men" and bone china lamps. They gradually discovered that their ancestors had already been involved in this fate: Chen Yan's ancestors were craftsmen who guarded lamps, Zhao Shanhe's ancestors were alchemists who supervised the construction of tombs, and Lao Qi's ancestors were descendants of the Mohist family who participated in the exploration of imperial tombs.
From the "past life" archway in western Hunan to the earth-line corridors in the Qinling Mountains, from the bronze tomb-suppressing beasts in Qin Shihuang's mausoleum to the Hebo Temple on the ancient crossing of the Yellow River, the three of them followed the guidance of the bone china lamp and uncovered the truth step by step: the so-called "soul-nurturing place" was originally a place of symbiosis. Qin Dynasty craftsmen twisted the symbiosis between humans and water-bone creatures into plunder. In the end, they ended the thousand-year-old debt with the return of the three talismans, allowing the dim light of the bone china lamp to extinguish in the waves of the Yellow River, and allowing new life to quietly sprout under the water.
This is not only an ancient tomb exploration, but also the repayment of the faults of the ancestors by three generations and the redemption of all living things.
