After failing the college entrance exam, Shen Moxing sees his future go dark. On a stormy afternoon, he enters a zoo in search of a way forward, only to stumble into the other side of the world.
As a lion's deadly claws come at him on a bloodstained gust of wind, he reaches his limit and hears the heartbeat of all living things. [Beast Tongue, Heart to Heart] becomes his bridge between two worlds, and reveals to him a magnificent epic hidden beneath the modern city: Esper academies, ancient sacred relics, invasions by other races... A turbulent new era is opening its doors to him.
At East Sea Academy, he meets the elegant and lovely Xie Yunnuo and gathers companions who will share life and death with him. His ability evolves from communicating with all living things to [Mimicry] of every creature. A fragment of the tome Records of Ten Thousand Beasts points him toward a journey to find the Nine Sacred Relics and the other eight Guardians.
The officer "Wangjiang," whose will is forged from steel; the ingenious genius "Kuixin"; the scholar "Shuchi," who sees through all things... One by one, the nine companions, each bound by destiny and a sacred relic, gather together. They will face the surging tides of the demon race and the ghost race, becoming nine rays of dawn that tear through the darkness in a battle for survival sweeping across the globe.
But when the price of saving the world is losing all their powers and memories, and a magnificent epic must finally come to an end, where will Shen Moxing and his companions go?
This is a coming-of-age story about communication and understanding, a world-saving epic written in the language of beasts. But above all, it is a warm homecoming about how, after experiencing the extraordinary, one boy finds his way back to an ordinary, happy life.
