The faithful of the Fusi Church believe that this world exists because the hero "Surumer" astonished the Creator with his act of self-immolation. As long as people continue to believe in him and sing the praises of his great name, the apocalypse of white mist will never come. But the Sai people in the south see things differently. Supreme pragmatists, they are devoted to spending day after day in the Senate debating whether to conquer one territory or another, losing themselves in the brilliant speeches of their rhetoricians. Meanwhile, the Ling Dynasty in the east focuses on its tug-of-war with the fierce Shuangyun people of the grasslands, endlessly cycling through rebirth amid great upheavals that come once every few centuries, while waxing and waning under the rule of both foolish and enlightened emperors. In the tenth century after the Hanhai Desert appeared, an upheaval began: a westbound merchant caravan set out, unveiling a tragic epic of mortals defying fate.
