“No spirits may manifest after the founding of the nation.” This is no joke, but an ironclad law forged in countless lives and rivers of blood.
In 1950, a surveying team ventured deep into the Ailao Mountains and broke through a thousand-year-old mist. Almost the entire team perished. The sole survivor brought back a fragment of bronze inscribed with eight characters: “The mountain is guarded by spirits. Do not disturb them…”
Sixty years later, a baby of unknown origin is found at the foot of the mountain and named Xiahou Chuan. His blood can bring dead trees back to life, but it can also loosen seals. Those who have been suppressed for sixty years are slowly crawling out through cracks in the earth…
Murong Su, chief of the Ninth Bureau’s Operations Division, is sent to investigate. She always carries a black umbrella…
As the investigation deepens, the vast secret realm hidden in the depths of the Ailao Mountains is gradually revealed. In an abyss that has existed since before the Qin dynasty, three layers of seals suppress an ancient Zhulong dragon that has fallen to the demonic path…
Is he human or demon? A key or a lock?
A clan of mountain guardians that has existed for a thousand years, a mysterious black-robed figure codenamed “Priest,” an ancient being that always wears a white mask, and a shocking conspiracy spanning both the human and demon worlds. All eyes are fixed on this twenty-year-old young man…
The thing behind the door is opening its first eye…
And everyone has only three days left…
