The Dragon Vein Great Wall

Zhang Qiming, the cemetery keeper of Longjing Village in Hangzhou, dredges a cracked tortoiseshell compass and half a manuscript of the Celestial Master Thunder Method from an ancient well in his ancestral home on Shifeng Mountain. His grandfather, Zhang Shouzheng—codename Dragon Seven and the last heir of the Dragon Hidden cell—died thirty years ago, having exhausted his life force sealing the Yangren's gene nucleus with his thunder magic. The Yangren are a clandestine alien civilization lurking within human society, sustaining their human form through cannibalism and intermarriage, and now plotting to eliminate the Han Chinese via genetic engineering. Beneath West Lake, they have buried seven Beidou bone pillars, channeling the elemental forces of water, fire, lightning, wind, metal, wood, and earth to silently drain the genes of Hangzhou's millions. Shen Moyuan, the genteel owner of the West Lake teahouse, is in truth a seventh-generation genetically modified Yangren noble with silver pupils. To outward eyes, he is a refined sinophile; underground, he operates a living gene-experiment facility, trapping abducted Han youths as test subjects. Zhang Qiming joins forces with genetic scientist Jin Zhuli from the L9 Paranormal Bureau and five Xuanjia warriors. Advancing layer by layer through the ninefold Thunder Method, they shatter the final earth pillar beneath the Qiantang River with three consecutive lightning strikes. With all seven West Lake pillars destroyed, Silver Eye escapes ahead of time, leaving behind only a folding fan inscribed with a promise: "See you in Shanghai." Dragon Hidden commander Chen Xuan orders that now the Celestial Master bloodline has awakened, Qiming must journey to the four directions—recalling the guardians of the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace, the Western Desert Kunlun Ruins, the Southern Ridge Basha Valley, and the Northern Mountain Ice Wastes. Only by gathering all five sacred artifacts beneath the Celestial Master Seal on Longhu Mountain can he activate the Nine Heavens Thunder Ring and rewrite the Yangren gene nucleus into a symbiotic covenant. This is the invisible Dragon Vein Great Wall—built with Han Chinese genes as its bricks and the Celestial Master Thunder Method as its beacon fires, raised upon the nine provinces' dragon veins, never to fall. Layer by layer, the thunder breaks; artifact by artifact, they are found. From West Lake to the Eastern Sea, from Kunlun to the Amazon, from the Mausoleum of Qin to the Celestial Master's seat on Longhu—the blood of the final Celestial Master will at last awaken a new epoch with the thunder of the Nine Heavens Supreme Response.