The Seven Silver Arts

[Hardcore Historical Mystery and Cross-Border Battles Between Good and Evil]

[Archaeological Suspense, Respecting History, No Tomb Raiding]

In 1646, Zhang Xianzhong, a leader of the peasant rebellions at the end of the Ming dynasty, fell into an ambush set by Southern Ming general Yang Zhan at the mouth of the Min River in Sichuan. He was soundly defeated, and countless ships laden with treasure were sunk. This gave rise to the legend of the sunken silver at Jiangkou. For three hundred years, no one managed to bring even a single piece of gold or silver up from the riverbed.

From the 1990s onward, more and more treasure hunters came to the Min River to salvage and plunder the treasures aboard Zhang Xianzhong's sunken ships. The treasures linked to seven oddly shaped silver ingots recovered from the river became the new target of tomb raiders. Numerous foreign factions also joined the race to uncover the mystery of the seven silver pieces.

Yang Dianfeng, a brilliant computer science student at a top university, is inadvertently kidnapped by a gang of tomb raiders. He is soon arrested and recruited, and somehow ends up as the leader of an archaeological exploration team. From then on, he is caught up in a fierce struggle against foreign tomb raiders and embarks on a strange, mysterious adventure.

This novel is a suspenseful archaeological adventure and mystery. Folkloric phenomena are explained using relevant scientific discoveries, and the archaeological details are based on evidence. All deductions are fictional. Any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental.