An upside-down dragon palace suddenly appears in the Mengjin section of the Yellow River, forcing Si Jiming, an antique restorer, to embark on a journey of robbing tombs. Meng Jinnian, who was terminally ill, came with the jade slips of Hetu and used the Bi of Immortality as bait to invite him to go to Kunlun County together. The Si family's curse of not being able to survive the thirty-two years and the Meng family's ancestral motto that "the key must perish" are revealed layer by layer in the Ghost Eye of Sinking Lake, the Mirror Palace in Qinling Mountains, and the Ship Coffin in the Three Gorges. It turns out that Dragon Palace is not a mausoleum, but a "time calibrator" left behind by the ancient heaven. Every five hundred years, the tomb keeper needs to burn his life to restart it. After one hundred and twenty-seven reincarnations, Si Jiming finally gave the world a choice in front of the floating bronze city: die alone, or let all mankind share the fate. The cracks in the copper seal are closed, and the word "freedom" appears, while the ebony boat is still sailing at night on the Yellow River, waiting for the next dragon picture to appear.
Purpose: The novel uses the "Dragon Palace" as a mirror to reflect the eternal game between individual destiny and collective freedom: when the price of saving the world will always be borne by a few people, the so-called "destiny" is the greatest injustice. Only by breaking the blood curse and allowing everyone to face reincarnation together can we truly achieve "immortality".