The phosphorus fire during the Guangxu period crawled out from the false tripod in Prince Gong's mansion and burned through the lifeblood of the mountains and rivers.
The broken bones of tomb robber Qi Feng are embedded with the golden ring of his ancestor, and the cauldron pattern on the shoulders of blind girl Liu Qiniang is as bright as a curse. Together with Wen Ruyan, a pregnant treasure appraiser, Shi Gandang, a Feng Shui master who moved stars to atone for his sins, and Luo Yan, a gunpowder maker who burned his arms to sacrifice heroes' souls, they went against the current of the Reform Party's frenzy of melting cauldrons and dragons -
The bronze-armored Yin soldiers on the old path of the Yellow River sang the military song of 1888, Sanskrit blood books emerged among the rust of the naval guns; the nanmu pillars of the Summer Palace were etched with pictures of the sinking of the Zhiyuan ship, and the compasses in the hands of the corpses of the Nian Army pointed to the quicksand of the Yellow River Flood Area. The poison of history spreads in the fate of the five elements: arsenic poison seeps into the rivers with bad coins, and the love curse eats the bones through the reincarnation of the first-generation blood jade.
Qiniang used a ruler wrapped with blood-stained threads as a compass, just like morning sickness caused poison to condense into ice to protect the baby, Shi Gan should move the Beidou and be killed by thunder from the sky. When Luo Yan's right arm was burnt to make a "mountain and river are safe" burnt pottery to hold the mountain, the false tripod in the Reform Party's furnace exploded, and the shadows of the officers and soldiers of the sunken ship emerged from the splashing copper liquid.
The five people turned the national trauma into fuel: the remains of sunken ships were bundled into tripods, and the yellow and poisonous wheat was melted into inscriptions. The moment Qiniang regained her sight amid the sound of rattles, she saw the broken bones that Qi Feng had melted into gold for the cauldron, and the rising sun was penetrating the abyss of Guixu. Under the charred wood, silver babies laugh and shake drums, and bacteria hibernate in the thunder-fire tube-shaped fruits.
Concept: A historical fantasy fable that uses the Five Elements secret technique to dissect the national trauma of the late Qing Dynasty