The Secret History of Nanzuo

At 23, artificial intelligence trainer Chen Xiaoyang touched a gray-brown pottery shard at the Nanzuo Ruins in Qingyang, Gansu. His soul transmigrated to the late Yangshao culture period, five thousand years ago, and took over the body of Yang, a priest in the Nanzuo capital.

He discovered an ancient secret buried beneath nine rammed-earth platforms: an energy network formed by nine archaeological sites, carrying the earliest seeds of Chinese civilization. Starting from the Dongzhiyuan Plateau, he traveled along the Wei River, Bailong River, and Han River, crossing the Guanzhong region and the Kunlun Mountains. He encountered trail markers left by five "Fire Walkers," and the deepest memories of the land of Qingyang.

This is an adventure story about searching and choosing, a chance to see anew, through the eyes of a time traveler, a page from five thousand years of Chinese civilization that was never written down. Beneath the loess of the Dongzhiyuan Plateau lies a key. At the end of the nine-point arc stands everyone who draws strength from the land beneath their feet.

A nine-point arc, a road five thousand years long.