Battle Soldier

In the middle period of the Zhou Dynasty, as the dynasty declined from its height, the realm fell into turmoil and the nation teetered on the brink of collapse. The Zhou Dynasty's days were numbered. Local powers formed alliances, marked off their territories, and split into countries large and small. United by a common language or shared culture, they claimed their own lands, raised military defenses and checkpoints against one another, and stood ready to engage in political maneuvering.

At times they went to war, at times they made peace.

By then, 109 countries and feudal lords had emerged!

But the process of contraction and change continued…

And I was one of the many people living in this age of countless countries.

That year…

My homeland was jointly besieged by other countries, and the entire town was utterly destroyed.

I enlisted to avenge my parents.

For my parents, for my country, I fought my way forward!

The tide of events carried me to the State of Chu.

I became a citizen of Chu and continued to serve the state.

I even married a woman from Chu.

Then I heard that my parents might still be alive.

So I began traveling south to find them.

I kept going until I reached the Hundred Pu Kingdoms.

The years stretched on…

In this land beyond the reach of conflict, I founded a country of my own.

I hadn't wanted to talk about martial arts, but in this age of conflict and slaughter, ordinary people couldn't survive more than a few battles.

I lived on to record it all.

The journey was so cruel, and yet so beautiful.

The contradictions were immense, so immense they seemed intangible, and yet so small they could be ignored.

The years were long, and yet they were short.

Even today, wheat and rice have been harvested only a little over three thousand times!