Star Axis Mountains and Seas: Tao Runs Through the Nine Realms

If the Sumerians, Greeks, Indians, Mayans—all ancient civilizations in the world—remember the same great flood, where did that flood come from? Comparative mythologist Lin Yan spent twenty years superimposing the coordinates of the "birthplace" of five hundred flood myths on the same map. They point to the same location under the Antarctic ice. There is a tree buried there that runs through the nine realms. Ten thousand years ago, floodwaters surged from its roots and flooded the earth. Ten thousand years later, Lin Yan's blood dripped on the stone pillars engraved with ancient symbols, and Jianmu woke up again. He saw the truth: the world-destroying flood never receded, it just ascended from one world to another along the nine-layered branches of the building, like the blood rushing in the veins, like the endless torrent in the river, like the faint lines that had flickered for ten thousand years on the symbols of the losers carved into the bone marrow of heaven. Lin Yan was the ninth person selected. The first eight were turned into symbols and carved on the inner wall of the building. His only chance of winning is to remember all the mistakes they have made - and then use his humanity to break the law of heaven at the end of his destiny.