Chen An owns an antique shop on the verge of bankruptcy. He has long fingers, a calm gaze, and one defining principle: he never sells fakes. Then, one night, the string of Xingyue Bodhi beads his grandfather left him grows hot, and an old man claiming to be Bi'an, the ninth son of the Dragon, crawls out of his hand. From then on, all sorts of things inexplicably move into his antiques: hidden inside a Qing dynasty Shan Gui coin he picked up for fifty yuan is Fang Xiangshi, an ancient god of plague exorcism; sleeping inside a Warring States jade tube he snagged at an auction is an arrogant fire spirit; and the Shang dynasty jade owl he fished out of an ancient tomb turns out to be a messenger from the underworld. Between the noisy everyday lives of his lodgers and the mysterious organization Treasure Basin, stirring in the shadows as it searches for every "spirit-infused magical artifact" in hopes of creating an ultimate vessel that can house all the gods, Chen An faces a secret hidden within his seemingly ordinary body, one powerful enough to overturn both the human and spirit worlds: he is the "Vessel of Ten Thousand Years," the only being in the world capable of hosting multiple gods at once. This is a story of antiques, gods, evil spirits, and protection. As ancient spirits awaken in the modern city, and the fingers that distinguish genuine artifacts from fakes begin to touch the supernatural frontier...
"Something's not right about this..."
"Step back first."
