The apocalypse descends, and echoes of the civilizations of countless nations awaken.
Some awaken the Norse god of thunder, some inherit the Egyptian pharaohs, and some summon Roman legions.
Shen Yan, however, is classified as a resonance bearer of the lowest-level civilization.
Because what he awakened was not a deity, a throne, or an army.
It was a silent cemetery of Chinese civilization.
Before the first tombstone, an unnamed Qin soldier asks him:
"In the ages to come, will the lands of Xia still shine bright?"
From that moment on, Shen Yan knows he has awakened not one ancestor,
but an entire civilization spanning five thousand years.
When alien civilizations lay siege to the city, nameless judgment descends, and a divine tree seeks to devour the names of all the dead,
Shen Yan opens the Everlasting Register:
"The living shall be entered in the register; the dead shall keep their names."
"The lands of Xia have not fallen, and their light shall never be extinguished."
There lie buried the broken armor of Qin soldiers, the yellow sands of Loulan, the fading echoes of the sages of Xia, and the names of all those who once refused to bow their heads.
As black fog swallows cities and foreign tribes storm the passes, everyone believes humanity has nowhere left to retreat.
But Shen Yan grips the Tiger Tally and awakens the dying embers of civilization beneath the tombstones.
"Qin soldiers, return to formation."
And so broken armor rings anew, and the Great Wall rises once more.
In this life, the lands of Xia will not fall, and their light will never be extinguished.
