Lu Chen, a graduate student in ancient history, carries the Mountain-Moving Order his grandfather left him. Deep in the Qinling Mountains, inside an unmarked ancient tomb, he triggers a teleportation array leading to a world of ancient myth.
He thinks he has fallen into an ancient burial chamber. Only later does he discover that the entire world of the Classic of Mountains and Seas is one enormous tomb with no way out.
The strange beasts are no legends. They were real creatures that once lived in the ancient world. What price did the Queen Mother of the West pay for her art of immortality? What Yu the Great subdued was not a flood, but the aftershock of two worlds colliding.
Every tomb holds the “true history” of a myth. With each tomb he opens, another piece of the truth behind the ancient world's disappearance falls into place.
When all ten tombs have been opened, he faces one final choice: seal the passage and return to reality; sever the connection between the two worlds and leave the ancient myths behind; or become a bridge between them, linking the two worlds forever.
The Mountain-Moving Taoist's legacy turns out to be about more than robbing tombs. It is about burial, and awakening.
