Chenzhou Talismans: Starry Stone in the Hanging Coffin

In 1978, Liu Tiehan, a young man from western Hunan, gets lost on Yun Chuan’s Mount Erlong. He encounters a ball of white light and accidentally stumbles into a hidden realm, where he is rescued by He Yima, a mysterious Miao woman. In a stream, he also finds a strange stone that is neither iron nor jade. He has no idea that the stone is a protective artifact left behind on Earth after a battle between ancient gods. It is tens of thousands of times more advanced than the smartphones of two thousand years in the future, an interstellar high-tech creation capable of independently gathering energy and projecting full holograms. After absorbing the essence of the sun and moon for tens of thousands of years on Earth, it has developed a spirit of its own. When a drop of hot blood seeps into it, the Starflame Stone silently recognizes its new master and awakens. From then on, Liu Tiehan possesses incredible powers. While working in Yicheng, he saves Yu Xiaoyan, a university student from Shanghai doing an internship, after she falls into the water. They fall in love, but are forced apart by the difference in their social status. Heartbroken, he returns home and studies Chenzhou talismans under the eccentric Grandpa Qin. He then learns that the old man is a veteran of the War of Resistance, who hopes to find the families of his fallen comrades and return their belongings. Liu quits his job and heads to Shanghai to make his fortune. While homeless, he meets Professor Yu from the history department, who finds him a place to stay at an antique shop. Using his supernatural eye to gamble on stones, Liu gets rich and returns home to build a school. Several years later, Professor Yu leads an expedition to study the hanging coffins of Yun Chuan and invites Liu along. Liu hopes to return his comrades’ belongings on Grandpa Qin’s behalf and find He Yima, the Miao woman who once saved him. During the expedition, he unexpectedly reunites with Yu Xiaoyan, who has returned from studying abroad, and they rekindle their romance. Together with Professor Yu, he unravels the mystery of the Bo people’s disappearance and encounters immortals in Sanxian Cave, monsters from a space-time rift, glowing UFOs, little gray men, and silver orbs... The Starflame Stone is the key to solving it all. He does not know that the greatest secret is not the Starflame Stone. The little gray man aboard that ball of white light modified his genes in secret, and he is now close to immortal.