When teenagers JOSH (Louis Corbett) and LING (Li Lin Jin) combine their parents, CHRIS (Sam Neill) and doctor LI (Wang Ji) on a archaeological dig in China they strike something trapped below a temple beyond their wildest imagination. Chinese monster lives. Two million years before, to shield his kingdom, the dragon lent his pearl to an emperor. The pearl was buried under his palace with an emperor, and helpless with no origin of power that the dragon has stayed entombed ever since.