Ninety-two days behind on his loan payments, unable to afford even a schoolbag for his son, Wang Gensheng squats beneath his battered pickup at Shapotou, convinced he’ll be trapped in this sea of yellow sand for the rest of his life.
Then he touches the black stone under the chassis and steps straight into a swamp in another world.
A bucket of fresh milk splashed at a man-eating beast tames it completely. Half a bottle of warm milk brings a dying tribal child back to life.
That’s when he learns that the milk he produces is actually miraculous spirit milk, able to connect two worlds, heal grievous injuries, and buy priceless treasures!
From then on, his battered pickup becomes his key to traveling between worlds, the black stone his gateway, and the spirit milk his trump card.
In this world, his “Blue Glow Yogurt” takes the whole city by storm, turning him from a poor man drowning in debt into Shapotou’s leading success story. In the other world, he trades lighters for agarwood and plastic sheeting for copper ore. The tribespeople call him the “Spirit Milk Emissary,” and his storage ring can hold an entire gold mine.
Boundary-crossers covet his spirit milk, the cultural relics bureau has its eye on the antiques, the Bone-Eater Tribe spreads poisonous miasma and digs for gateways, and a sealed sand demon threatens to devour both worlds.
Wang Gensheng grips his bucket of milk. “I’ll protect the banks of the Yellow River, and I’ll protect the warmth of life in the other world, too. Anyone who wants to steal my milk or hurt my people will have to get past this bucket of spirit milk!”
From a poor cowherd in Shapotou to the acknowledged guardian of both worlds, he uses a bucket of fresh milk to carve out an unstoppable path to success between the yellow sands and the swamp!
