When Chen Yuan activates humanity’s first space-time observatory, he expects to see the primeval past. Instead, he deciphers an epic that has been forgotten.
Myths turn out to be lost technology:
Taishang Laojun’s “alchemy furnace” was a space station floating among the stars;
The “Samadhi True Fire” that incinerated all things was a high-energy laser capable of precision strikes;
And the “Golden Core” that granted its bearer immortality was a superalloy that physically altered the composition of matter.
As science verifies the myths one by one, Chen Yuan realizes that humanity has misunderstood its own history from the very beginning.
