Fragments of the Heavenly Book: The Immortality Tribulation

[The mystery of immortality + paranormal exploration + lost ancient civilizations + underground palaces in remote mountains + thousand-year-old tombs + underwater ancient cities]

During the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin ordered Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang to use the Book of Changes and the Eight Trigrams to divine the fate of the Tang. In doing so, they unwittingly created the most extraordinary book in history: the Tui Bei Tu!

According to legend, the Tui Bei Tu contains sixty images, each accompanied by a cryptic prophecy and a poem. Together, they predict the major events in Chinese history from the Tang Dynasty all the way to a future world of great unity.

Its predictions proved so accurate that people revered it as a divine book!

But in truth, the Tui Bei Tu did not consist of sixty volumes, but sixty-four!

For when Yuan and Li reached the end of their calculations, they actually deciphered the legendary secret of immortality!

The two men were horrified. Divining the fate of the empire already carried immense karmic consequences. If they uncovered the heaven-defying secret of immortality, they would surely become outcasts in the eyes of the world!

So they immediately decided to conceal the final four volumes, passing them down orally through their families and forbidding anyone from revealing them!

Centuries later, Mr. Liu Bowen of Qingtian obtained the final four volumes. After deciphering them, he knew his time was near!

So, on his deathbed, he destroyed the last four volumes completely and rewrote them as a heavenly book, leaving it behind for the world!

Time flows on, and the years pass like a shuttle!

Hundreds of years later, one fragment of the heavenly book fell into the hands of Chen Jinghe, a professor in the Archaeology Department at Yanjing University. Thus began the uncovering of the thousand-year-old secret said to lie within the Tui Bei Tu…