[Historical What-If, Ensemble Cast, Mystery]
Everyone knows the Yongle Encyclopedia as the Ming Dynasty's unparalleled compendium,
but few know it contains the key to a thousand years of rise and fall in Huaxia.
In the Pre-Qin era, the ancestors of Huaxia fought Western foreigners in Qin (today's Europe) for decades.
In the end, they retreated to Chu (today's China) with their inherited secret arts.
They sealed the dragon veins, built hidden realms, and drew a boundary to defend,
in exchange for over a thousand years of peace along their borders.
A thousand years later, during the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty,
the Western foreigners returned with the help of the Church.
They sought to steal the encyclopedia and learn the secret arts,
and schemed to breach the boundary and seize Huaxia's rightful succession.
The ancient families who guarded the veins, represented by Mu Yuyu, appeared amid the storm,
guarding the dragon veins and the encyclopedia, surveying ancient ruins and exploring hidden realms.
From the underground palace in Jinling to the Kunlun peaks, from the ancient roads of the southern frontier to the tombs of Egypt,
they gradually uncovered secrets sealed away since the Pre-Qin era and protected the lifeblood of Huaxia's lands.
Once this calamity, stretching across a thousand years, was revealed,
it would be enough to overturn everything people knew about Huaxia civilization.
And the true reason the ancestors retreated to Chu a thousand years ago
was the most chilling secret of all...
