The Peaceful Tang Dynasty
When nuclear physics collides with a city-protecting grand formation, scientific thinking deconstructs the mystical lore of the Tang Dynasty.
In 2026, at a laboratory in the northwest, a disastrous experiment sends Lin Yue, a genius nuclear physicist, tumbling into Chang'an in 629 AD, carrying a mysterious lunar mineral known as Moon Palace Stone.
It is the third year of the Zhenguan era, and the golden age is just beginning. But when the mineral resonates with the long-lost Chang'an city-protecting grand formation, an explosion erupts in the Western Market, and the whole city brands him a “demon.” The cavalry of Li Dejian, a deputy commander of the Right Military Guard; the cunning schemes of Su Dan, a junior official of the Directorate of Imperial Manufactories; and a damaged formation node deep within the Eastern Palace: this seemingly prosperous capital conceals an energy secret spanning a century.
A scientist's logic collides with the rules of mysticism.
- He tries to use field theory to analyze the formation's ley lines, only to discover that its energy network points straight to the depths of the imperial palace.
- He assumes history is set in stone, but witnesses Moon Palace Stone leave its mark during the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
- He only wants to survive quietly, but gets swept up in Li Shimin's secret pursuit of mysterious powers.
This is a battle of understanding.
Lin Yue, with Moon Palace Stone in hand, is both the “key” to completing a thousand-year-old formation and the “wild card” in the struggle between rival factions. When Crown Prince Li Chengqian begins dreaming of fragments of the future, when Li Jing discovers Turkic shamans activating a similar mineral at the frontier, and when the Chang'an formation gradually awakens because of Lin Yue's arrival...
He will use scientific thinking to shake the understanding of an entire era.
Will he become the nation's guardian weapon in an emperor's hands, or establish his own “Great Tang Academy of Sciences”? Will he use the laws of physics to rewrite the course of history, or seek scientific explanations within a mystical system?
“The city-protecting grand formation is, at its core, a...”
