Lu Guanxian is a cultural relic restorer. He is withdrawn and talks little. He prefers to stay with scraps of metal rather than other people. It wasn't until late at night that he was repairing a rusty bronze vessel when he heard a cry for help.
"Save me—I am not a bronze vessel. I am a tripod."
He's not crazy. He inherited a gift called "listening instrument" - the ability to hear the sounds of cultural relics. That broken bronze vessel was the fragment of the stepmother Wuding, which had been waiting in the spiritual realm for five thousand years.
Xu Zhiyao, a descendant of a family of weapon spiritual masters, told him three things: the world is layered with a "spiritual realm", and ancient cultural relics have their own souls and forms in it; the twelve beast heads are the keys to a sealing array and must not fall into the hands of a person who has lived for two hundred years; Lu Guanxian's father, who has been missing for five years, may still be alive.
That person's name is Bai Ye. He was a painter of the Old Summer Palace. In 1860, he witnessed an animal head being plundered and fused with an ancient soul-fixing mirror, making him immortal. He wants to gather all the beast heads, activate the Ten Thousand Beast Formation, and rebuild the ruined Old Summer Palace.
But Lu Guanxian discovered that there was a problem with the location information of the beast head.
Someone removed the rat head in advance, leaving a replica signed "B". The coordinates of the rabbit's head are fake, but a code pointing to the true location is left. Every step was accurately predicted. Byakuya wasn't stopping them - he was guiding them.
The bigger lie is buried deeper: the number of twelve animal heads itself is false.
Join "The Journey Back", become teammates with a thousand-year-old national treasure, and uncover a scam that spans two hundred years.
