This is a secret record of feng shui spanning nearly a century.
In the fourteenth year of the Republic of China, eighteen-year-old Su Zhe, an apprentice printer from Qingdao, encounters Xuanzhenzi, the 35th-generation leader of the Maoshan Dao, on Mount Lao. A blank stone tablet, an old compass, and a quivering red needle give him his first glimpse of the power of “earth qi”: it can heal, but it can also kill.
From the dragon that fell in Yingkou to Shanghai's coiling dragon pillars, from rural ghost stories to crises in towering city buildings, Su Zhe makes it his mission to “set the mountains and rivers in order,” walking between reality and legend. The 749 Bureau calls on him whenever a case proves difficult, but he always remains independent: not for fame or profit, but to protect the dragon veins, unseen yet vital to the fate of the nation.
The story draws on folk tales and real-world geography. All characters and events are fictional creations. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.
