A century ago, Tan Xuan, chieftain of Sanmao, used his own body to seal the rift between the mountains and seas beneath the Qing River, temporarily holding it shut.
After the old chieftain system was abolished and replaced with regular administration, the artisan families and the Tima lineage went underground, quietly guarding the ley-line formation anchors from generation to generation. The ancient arts of the Ba people's White Tiger secret patterns, cave mechanisms, and mountain-spirit rites were on the verge of being lost amid the turmoil.
In 1938, Wuhan fell and the Hubei provincial government moved west to Enshi. Overnight, this mountain city became Hubei's wartime capital. The Sixth War Zone headquarters, Military Statistics Bureau agents, underground Party organizations, Sichuan and Hunan warlords, and displaced scholars all converged in the mountains.
The Japanese coveted the Wuling Mountains' hidden selenium mines, ancient cave resources, and bronze artifacts left behind by the Ba people. They sent agents into western Hubei, intent on destroying the mountains' ley lines, plundering the treasures hidden in the secret realms, and undermining the foundations of China's wartime rear.
Chen Wang, a descendant of the protagonist Chen Yan, inherited the artisan family's legacy of guarding the ley lines. From childhood, he was versed in ancient formation patterns and cave geography, and all he wanted was to live quietly in a mountain village. But Japanese activity, secret police searches, bandit raids, and the Kuomintang hardliners' suppression of the ley-line guardians forced him back into the fray.
He joins forces with the remaining descendants of the Tima, orphans of Red Army veterans from the old revolutionary base areas, underground Party members in western Hubei, and the Tujia people's folk militia known as the "Divine Soldiers." Together, they move between Enshi's old town, the ancient riverbed of Tenglong Cave, the sinkhole at Luyuanping, the underground ruins of Bianbiancheng, and the hidden site of Red Rock Lion on Wufeng Mountain.
They fight the Japanese expeditionary force's schemes and thwart its plans to plunder the mountains' secret realms. They also protect the underground Party as it carries out resistance and national salvation work under the white terror of the Military Statistics Bureau, while repairing the Qing River ley-line seal before it collapses and unleashes the apocalyptic disaster that would follow if the ancient mountain-and-sea rift fully opened.
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The entire stone chamber suddenly trembled. Under the crimson light, the rapidly expanding crevice in the stone gate slowly and laboriously closed inward. The surging, backflowing underground waters suddenly weakened, their roaring waves forcefully pushed back behind the stone gate. The painful tremors deep within the earth's veins also subsided slightly.
The ancient stone chamber was sealed off by fallen rocks, the water level reaching ankle-deep, and the earth's veins were continuously eroded by poison. From the cracks in the stone door drifted the ethereal, ancient songs of the Salt Water Goddess.
The ancient cave at Xitou'ao, nestled in the cliff face, was the site of a Japanese ambush. The Japanese, employing a diversionary tactic, launched a surprise attack on the village from the outside while simultaneously triggering a rockfall trap. Huge boulders and mud slammed shut, sealing the cave's exit.
A brief compromise was reached at Wayaoping, with Lin Yan pledging his ancestral bronze pendant in exchange for his freedom of movement. The Military Intelligence Bureau split its forces: one group escorted witnesses and evidence back to Enshi, while the other, on field missions, took a shortcut to aid Xitou'ao. The four guards abandoned the main road, traversing mountains to find a shortcut to Xitou'ao, which had already been hit by floods. (1942, Western Hubei Mountains)
In the bamboo forest behind Wayaoping, the defense team destroyed a Japanese stronghold used for poisoning and corroding the river veins, capturing two spies, while one escaped. Military Intelligence Bureau officer Wu Shenzhi led a team to the scene by truck. The chaotic bamboo forest became a double-edged sword, providing evidence of enemy espionage but also leaving behind a scene that could be distorted. 1942, Wayaoping, western Hubei.
The Mountain Ghost Project has completely failed at its core. Holding the life-saving "Complete Formation Diagram of the Qingjiang Dragon Vein," Lu Shi'an slowly walked back to the center of the formation. Looking at the two men who were barely alive, he said calmly, "Xu Shenzhi has been captured.
"What use is there in preserving the decaying land of China? You are not worthy to guard the geothermal energy that I cannot obtain!" At the critical moment, a slender figure suddenly lunged out. Yukio Asai leaped into the air without hesitation, crashing her body into Kankichi Sato's wrist! This is her only way to atone for her sins, her only way to break the deadlock.
Pei Jingchen approached step by step, his eyes cold and hard as iron: "Lu Shi'an, infiltrating the provincial government, colluding with mountain demons, and coveting the national dragon vein secret files, any one of these three crimes is enough to make you die a horrible death." "Hand over the ancient scrolls, and I'll give you face."
The roar of the landslide still echoed and trembled among the layers of Wuling Mountains. The sound of falling rocks continued incessantly, and yellow dust and gray mist rose into the air, obscuring the view of the entire valley and completely enveloping the forest where the battle had just taken place in a hazy white chaos.
The crisis in the valley has subsided for the time being, but a greater storm is already brewing among the towering mountains of Jingyang Town.