In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the blood of the imperial edict soaked Gu Zhaoming's Confucian scholar's robe. When he received the fire from the broken finger bones of his mentor, he was destined to fight to the death with Qianhu Lu Yi, the Jin Yiwei Qianhu - the party struggle was like a millstone crushing the Ming Dynasty. The sneer on the man's lips during his sentence became the poison in his nightmares every night.