The Seven Stars Shine on the Nine Gates

When Zhuge Qing, heir to the Wuhou Qimen arts, awoke, he was lying in a patch of wild grass outside Changsha in 1933. His phone was gone, his identity was gone, and even his sneakers had been replaced with traditional cloth shoes. The only things he hadn’t lost were his Qimen techniques and a power that had lain dormant in his bloodline for a long time, awakened at the moment he transmigrated. He entered the world of the Nine Gates as a fortune-teller and met the Eighth Master, the Second Master, Zhang the Buddha, and the other Nine Gates leaders, each of them flesh and blood. They went from testing one another to opening their hearts, with perilous mine expeditions, attacks by six mutated creatures in the Otherworldly Tower, the farcical romantic entanglements at the Xinyue Hotel, and the ceaseless artillery fire over Changsha standing between them. Zhuge Qing joined the Nine Gates in rescuing people, rooting out traitors, and quelling rebellions, rewriting one tragic fate after another. He wanted to save Yatou, cure Half-Li, and help the Buddha Lord achieve immortality. But every time he changed fate, someone else had to pay a price. Were he and the others willing to make that sacrifice? An accident in the Otherworldly Tower transformed the relationship between two of them. A long-delayed confession, spoken in a lull between battles, put an end to all their uncertainty. Zhuge Qing thought he was merely a passerby who had wandered into a game of chess, but without realizing it, he became the one variable no one’s fate could avoid. The Nine Gates went from being wary of him to trusting him, from testing him to entrusting their lives to him. And along the way, he changed from a self-important playboy into someone willing to shoulder the cost for everyone. In 1963, the greatest tomb-raiding expedition in history began, and the Zhang Family Ancient Building emerged. At last, he discovered that the awakening of his ancestral bloodline was no accident. His ancestor, Zhuge Kongming, had visited the ancient building in his lifetime and left behind a legacy. The Ziwei bloodline, Qiongqi bloodline, and Qilin bloodline had to work together to unravel the ultimate mystery. On this journey, we save others and ourselves, without asking whether we’ll return. Premise: Those who save others save themselves. Every fate rewritten is another step toward saving oneself.