The story unfolds against the vast backdrop of “folded history.” The seventeenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, at the end of the Ming dynasty, was not merely a change of dynasties. It marked the moment when the spiritual energy of Chinese civilization ran dry and the gods entered their twilight. The Ming imperial family was in fact descended from an ancient line of “Tomb Guardians,” charged with watching over Earth’s spiritual veins, the dragon veins. The Yongle Encyclopedia was no mere book, but a formation diagram sealing away ancient deities. The Vatican and the Maya civilization were actually branches of the Tomb Guardians established on different continents after Xu Fu’s voyage east and the Roman legions went missing.
