In the earliest days of the primordial world, A Chen, an orphan of the yellow earth, unexpectedly merges with the essence of Nuwa’s divine clay, drawing him into a shocking conspiracy spanning the Nine Realms. He finds Fuxi’s jade tablet in Leize, hears the call of the Xuanyuan Sword at Banquan, and glimpses the hub of myriad worlds in Kunlun, gradually uncovering the mystery of chaos left behind when Pangu created the world.
When Olympus’s divine fire scorches the battlefield of Zhuolu, Norse ravens circle Chiyou’s battle standard, and the chains of the Egyptian underworld coil around Taotie’s belly, this young man, carrying the divine lineage of the East, founds the Xuanmen amid the collision of Eastern and Western mythologies. From the flames of war at Banquan during the age of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, to the apotheosis struggles of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, and then the war-torn expanse of the Qin and Han, he joins disciples including descendants of Shennong and the Greek goddess Helen. Combining fragments of the Dao De Jing with the mysteries of the Eight Trigrams, he defies the prophecy of Ragnarok.
When the Mayan calendar points to doomsday and the Old Ones awaken in the depths of the sea, A Chen finally understands: the myths of the Nine Realms share the same source, though they flow in different directions. With divine clay as his foundation and a heart of chaos at his core, he forges a new path amid the cataclysm sweeping the heavens. The Xuanyuan Sword shines alongside Zeus’s scepter, the World Tree intertwines with the primordial dragon veins, and an epic of myth is born, spanning East and West and reaching across the ages.
