The Dragon Cauldron of Shu

In the ancient kingdom of Shu, where the sacred tree touches the sky and bronze forges all laws, bloodlines determine nobility. The kingdom, centered on the Sanxingdui ruins, is divided among four clans—Cancong, Baiguan, Yufu, and Duyu—each with their own spiritual veins, looking down upon the southern frontier. Yet beneath the prosperous facade, undercurrents have long seeped into the royal city: clans vie for power, ministers harbor ambitions, the Zhou court in the Central Plains watches covetously, neighboring states seek to devour, and hidden shadows from the spirit realm plot to seize the mortal world. Du Qinghan, a discarded son of the Duyu clan and a hostage prince in the royal city, bears a crippled bloodline despised by all. Once a spiritual waste, he endured humiliation and bullying. Only a half piece of the ancestral Dragon Cauldron fragment accompanies him as he bides his time in the mud. With vertical eyes that see through illusions, the sacred tree that suppresses the underworld, and the Dragon Cauldron that stabilizes the Shu ruins, when the prophecy of the kingdom's doom resounds across Shu and the ancient civilization teeters on the brink of collapse, the dormant waste prince sheds his disguise. With internal strategy to quell rebellion, with iron blood to suppress all directions, he fuses the supreme bloodlines of the four clans and wields the divine might of the ancient Shu cauldron. He sweeps away traitors within, repels the Zhou without, tramples the myriad barbarian tribes, and seals the source of calamity in the spirit realm. The eternal bronze shall not perish, and the flame of ancient Shu shall endure forever! In this life, he seeks not the empty title of king, but only to guard this land and ascend to the pinnacle of the Shu ruins. — Description from novelcodex.org