Li Junlan, the third young master of Jiangdu, was born a laughingstock.
In Jiangdu, the foremost ancient power, where the strong are as numerous as the clouds, his spiritual power is meager and he is gentle and harmless. Everyone dotes on this good-for-nothing young master. His older brother is held in high regard, the elders cherish him, and even the Nine Guards of the War Court protect him as if he were made of porcelain.
But no one knows that when night falls, beneath that black dragon mask, he becomes the War Court's Dark Night, a figure feared by foreign races.
Still less do they know who stands behind the shadow army that strikes fear across the Eight Wastelands, and the mysterious force Dark Night Alliance, which stirs up the whole world.
He sets out on a journey to find the Formless Fruit and save his mother, with the Red Sky Sword in hand and the Shadow War Halberd at his side. The Heavenly War Sacred Armor is scattered across the mortal world, the legend of the Pangu Axe resurfaces, a mysterious woman carries the bloodline of the Phoenix, and a fateful chess game spans ten thousand years...
As long-sealed truths are revealed one layer at a time, and he transmigrates through ten thousand years to establish Jiangdu and found the War Court with his own hands, he finally realizes that everyone has become his pawn, himself included.
The gentlest protection in this world is to let him believe he is walking alone. The deepest scheme is to make him the key to ending everything.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.