In the first month of the year Bingwu in 2026, a construction site in Mangshan, Luoyang, unexpectedly collapsed, revealing the tomb of "General Zhenling" from the Tang Dynasty. Lin Yan, a graduate student in the Department of Archeology, was ordered to participate in the rescue excavation, but found a jade horse talisman in the tomb inscribed with "Bingwu leads to the quiet, red horse treads the ruins". That night, the construction site suddenly collapsed and the jade horse talisman disappeared. However, the same red mark as the jade talisman appeared on the palm of Lin Yan's right hand.
Three days later, a blind old man who called himself "the Ruins Keeper" came to Lin Yan and said something shocking: "You are not the first. People born in the Year of the Horse in the Year of Bingwu will become a 'Ruins Walker' every sixty years. In the last year of Bingwu, your grandfather entered the Ruins Eye under the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang and never came out."
From then on, Lin Yan was involved in a secret inheritance that spanned two thousand years: from the Lishan Underground Palace to the Yunmeng Ghost Ruins, from the Yin City of Helan Mountain to the Nanhai Gui Ruins. Visitors to the ruins in the past generations risked their lives to strengthen the nine "eyes of the ruins" every Bingwu year and prevent the "secret ruins" deep in the earth's veins from eroding the human world. And this year, the seal of the ninth Ruins Eye is about to collapse...
