The heavens and earth turn upside down as the Xiongnu run rampant. In a year of severe drought, the land is strewn with the dead from hunger, the people are displaced, corrupt ministers seize power, and regional princes carve up the realm. Comrades slaughter one another, leaving a thousand miles soaked in blood. Disillusioned, the protagonist crowns himself emperor, founds a nation, and raises a great army to punish the realm...