Taking the Whole Family to Hide Deep in the Mountains

When modern-day Lin Xi woke up, she had been born into the farming Lin family as their cherished little darling. She thought her life would be a carefree routine of farming and tinkering with little inventions. But that year, a jade pendant carved with a dragon pattern changed her life forever.

A spirit-spring space quietly opened, bringing with it a bloodcurdling warning from an ancient saintess: “When the nine stars align, heaven and earth will collapse.” Extreme cold, earthquakes, plague, war... A sequence of disasters set to last for years had begun.

Fortunately, she had the precious advantage of foresight and the warmest family to rely on. She convinced her family, and they swore a blood oath. From then on, the Lin family openly prospered through trade, while secretly launching an ambitious construction project deep in the mountains.

When the first snowflake of the apocalypse fell, the Lin family had already vanished, taking refuge in a secluded valley surrounded by mountains. While the outside world lay frozen for thousands of miles and the dead were strewn across the land, their stone houses were warmed by underground fire, and their granaries overflowed.

Then one day, they found a young man lying unconscious in one of their traps on the outskirts of the valley, his body covered in blood. The tattered token at his waist hinted at a remarkable and dangerous past...