Five thousand years ago, during an ancient sacrificial ritual, the protagonist accidentally swallowed a fragment of the “Fire of Civilization.” From then on, he would never age or die, but he wasn’t invincible either. He could be wounded, feel pain, and grow weak, though he would always recover eventually. He could never have children. Everyone he loved would grow old and die. He could never stay in one place too long, or people would discover that he “never aged.”
He had been a soldier, a farmer, a merchant, a scholar, a doctor…
He had met Qin Shi Huang, Li Bai, Genghis Khan…
