The National Treasure Hunter

On a stormy night, the instant antique-shop apprentice Lin Guanlan touches a blue-and-white plum vase, golden veins burst across his left eye like a spiderweb

The crackled glaze of a Northern Song Ru kiln comes alive on his retina, and ghostly flames from a kiln site eight hundred years ago pour forth!

To save his gravely injured master, he is forced into the Canal Gang’s “Nine Deaths Hotpot Trial”:

· In the roiling red-oil pot, the star map on the tripe hides deadly danger

· The young gang leader’s steel clappers ring out a code hidden in Ming-dynasty blood-red porcelain

· And the light of the Marquis of Sui’s pearl reveals the snake-shaped corpse marks spreading across his wrist...

The price of awakening his supernatural ability is as cruel as a blade:

Every national treasure whose true nature he identifies costs him a precious memory, erased forever.

When the quantum key to the Imperial Seal finally comes to light, Lin Guanlan stands before the Dragon Gate at the bottom of Dongting Lake

Three hundred million from a black-market deal to save his mother in his left hand, the spark of five thousand years of civilization in his right.