Secrets of the Four Extremes

A blood-stained fragment of a leyline map drags Ding Yi, a small antique shop owner, into a death mystery that spans thousands of years. Deep in the dark tomb in Sanxingdui, Sichuan, the bronze sacred tree automatically moves without wind; at the bottom of Fuxian Lake in Yunnan, the ancient Dian Royal City that has sunk for thousands of years quietly wakes up; on the top of Kunlun Snow Mountain, the heartbeat comes from the frozen altar; in the Eye of Guixu in Hainan, ancient devices are waiting to be reactivated. There are sixteen ancient secret tombs and sixty-four mutually generating mechanisms. Every time a tomb is broken, it will lead to disaster. Ding Yi formed a secret-seeking team with the professor Hu Huhao who was under a blood curse, the mysterious tombkeeper Chen Yanqiu, and the veteran Wang Suntao, and embarked on a desperate journey amidst the hunting by all forces. The police, local gangsters, the military, the traitorous gravekeepers... All the forces have their own agendas. Is it to protect the national treasure, to seek personal gain, to prevent disaster, or to uncover the sealed truth? When the fragments of the map were put together one by one, they discovered that the so-called "treasure" was not a treasure at all, but the "Chaos Core" left over from ancient civilizations - a terrifying device that could rewrite the earth's veins and subvert the world. And the deepest secret is hidden at the starting point: the end point that all clues point to is actually the place where they started. The starting point is also the end. The answer they are searching for has been written down as early as the beginning of the story. When the returning tide of the South China Sea engulfed the last light, Ding Yi faced the final choice: activate the device and gain supreme power; or sink it into the trench forever with his own hands and let the secrets return to dust. Some doors should never be opened. There are truths that are cursed to know. And guardianship is an endless lonely journey.