Why is Qimen Dunjia so sprawling, with so much of it seeming true but proving false? Who knows that the Diagram of the Back, far from being a later fabrication, can correct itself? For a thousand years after the Han and Tang dynasties, were repeated invasions by foreign tribes and neighboring countries really caused only by our country's weakness? Was low productivity the sole reason for our lack of national strength? Why do prime ministers in our eastern neighbor's government change like lanterns on a revolving stand, yet still follow the same line?
These mysteries fall upon the shoulders of an ordinary person. After painstakingly unraveling them, strand by strand, will he expose a sinister conspiracy or fall into a cunning trap? Who, in the end, can he trust?
He battles ferocious tigers and slays wicked dragons, fearing neither hardship nor danger! He passes through the Gates of Hell and the Hall of the Underworld, surviving countless brushes with death!
In the distant rivers and lakes, power struggles rage everywhere! Every seemingly simple matter can set off a chain reaction!
From snowy forests to the ends of the earth, he will break free from his cocoon and fight to defend our vast nation!
Across the boundless desert and towering Kunlun Mountains, he plots from behind the scenes and swears to defend the righteous path of the human world to the death!