The national destiny arena is bound to the earth, and the rules are cruel: each country summons the strongest person from its own history or mythology to fight for life and death on behalf of civilization.
Egypt awakens Anubis, and divine power shakes the desert.
Greece summons Medusa, and the petrifying light freezes the battlefield.
The Roman army souls lined up, and their roars shook the sky.
In China, faced with a vast but unclear record, the expert team came to the desperate conclusion: the Queen of Qin had no "god" and could only be a modern military king and gamble on his unyielding spirit.
It was at this moment that Lin Yan stood up.
This history graduate student who would have died suddenly in front of his thesis three days later quietly took out a rusty Warring States sword coin and a copy of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas".
"I applied to represent China in the competition," he said.