Lin Ye, a newcomer to the archaeology department, accidentally activates the computational AI of a millennium-old relic at the site of a tomb collapse in a great tomb by the Wei River. A sweep of his fingertip across a fragment restores the relic's complete history, and one glance pinpoints the main tomb passage the entire team has spent seven days searching for.
With sheer expertise, he face-slaps an industry fraud who falsified an appraisal report. He pieces together 300,000 fragments of Sui dynasty secret-color porcelain in just three hours, snatches a lead from tomb raiders, and uncovers an underground Sui dynasty granary stocked with 200,000 dan of grain. Following the "Earth's Log," preserved beneath the rock strata of Mount Heng for three million years, he unlocks a deep-earth civilization network spanning China's every mountain range and reconstructs across the ocean the route eastward taken by Shang dynasty survivors 3,000 years ago.
When the ancestral totem on a Ming dynasty Great Wall brick lights up, he finally realizes that the mission he has taken on is a pact to protect civilization, passed down through generations of Chinese ancestors for a million years.
