Young Chen Mo had always thought his grandfather, Third Master Chen, was just an ordinary tomb raider. That was until an ancestral Dragon-Seeking Compass and a mysterious letter dragged him into a life-or-death mystery spanning forty years.
Beneath the Nine Dragons Holding a Pearl Gate in Changbai Mountain lay the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron, capable of reversing the nation’s fate. Eight scattered Bagua Keys held the last hope of repairing the dragon veins. But when Third Master Chen failed to retrieve the cauldron years ago, he not only brought it back, he also let a strand of dragon energy loose in the world. Now it had chosen a descendant of the Chen family.
To save himself, and to prevent a disaster caused by the collapse of the earth’s veins, Chen Mo set out in search of the keys. From the Black Dragon Cave in the Taihang Mountains to the corpse-driving villages of western Hunan, from the Wind-Roaring Cavern in the Wuyi Mountains to Kunlun’s Heavenly Pillar Peak, he gradually discovered that he had inherited more than the secret arts of the Mountain-Guarding Taibao: he had also inherited a destiny to protect the land.
Meanwhile, in the shadows, the enemy who framed his grandfather had awakened. A final confrontation that would determine the balance of heaven and earth awaited at the summit of Kunlun...
