Nine Rings

More than 3,000 years ago, a massive entourage entered the snow-covered forests of the northwest to build the legendary emperor’s “Immortal Palace.” From then on, that entourage vanished into the river of history.

The five feng shui masters who escaped funeral sacrifice split into five houses and spread out in the five directions. They understood each other tacitly, and never spoke of that incident again.

In the late 1970s, a farmer accidentally dug up a nine-ring jade box from the ground and then disappeared without a trace. When he reappeared, he was a dried-out “human skin.”

One night after 2010, a descendant of the Wen Bi Lu lineage, whose ancestors had been responsible for record-keeping and paperwork, suddenly received a nine-ring jade box stuffed with manuscripts. The manuscripts recorded a gorgeous, bizarre adventure story that was almost impossible to believe.