The global battle for national destiny begins. Every country receives one randomly selected sacred relic, bound to the lives of all its citizens.
Sakura Country draws the Sword of Tsumukari, Lighthouse Country gets Thor's Hammer, and the Nordic nations receive the Eternal Spear.
Then it is Dragon Country's turn: a tattered ancient scroll made of hide and a rusty bronze compass.
As viewers around the world mock them, Chen Qi opens the first page of the scroll. Xiangliu, the nine-headed, serpent-bodied monster, is approaching. The other countries throw every kind of modern weapon at it, but not one can so much as scratch it. Chen Qi, however, follows the instructions in the book and leads several hundred people to a mound of earth.
“Dig! Bury it with Xirang!”
Xiangliu turns into a mountain of stone, and the world's live comments are instantly flooded with one message: “Please, Dragon Country, sell us some dirt!”
It wasn't luck that saved us.
Our ancestors wrote down every rule for survival, stroke by stroke, in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
A nine-tailed fox? Bind some thatch into a bundle, bow low, and “invite” it. A sheep with no mouth? Don't kill it. You can only take its meat according to the rules. The captain of Sakura Country kneels at the camp entrance to beg for a trade. Chen Qi gives them a hundred portions of food in exchange for their sacred relic. “In this world, rules come first. Whoever has the stronger rules gets to decide.”
While the other countries are still using brute force to fight monsters, Chen Qi is leading Dragon Country's team through the Illustrated Gazetteer of Mountains and Seas, page by page, rebuilding the order of Huaxia in this savage land teeming with gods and demons.
