When cinnabar seeped out from the palm of the stone carving on the Seventh Peak of the Beidou, the three hundred years of peace in Vigil Village were completely torn apart.
A Fei fished up half a volume of "Shan Jing Yi Kao" from the mirror-eye cold pool, and the cinnabar sacrificial method recorded on the yellowed pages actually resonated with the strange blood patterns on his palms; the bronze gear A Guo intercepted from the moving bamboo forest was engraved with the emblem of Zhongli's family, who had been missing for thirty years. The two teenagers gradually discovered that this village wrapped in the folds of time and space contained shocking secrets that could subvert the five major families - the so-called ancient power that protected the villagers was actually a god-killer sealed by the astrolabe formation; the stone sculpture of the night watchman worshiped for generations was actually a soul-suppressing stake cast by a living person.
As the forest of ink and jade steles revealed the afterimage of A Fei's sword-carrying massacre in his previous life, a list of martyrs engraved with names emerged from the bottom of the cold pool, and they were forced to be involved in a cause-and-effect situation that spanned thousands of years...
Purpose: When illusion becomes the law of survival, how to hold on to the candle of humanity in the gap between truth and lies - to explore the cost and redemption of individual awakening in the tampered history.