Secrets of Chapter 42 of the Deer and the Cauldron

In the fifteenth year of Kangxi's reign, a shocking conspiracy surged among the rivers, lakes and courts. Wei Xiaobao, the personal bodyguard of Emperor Kangxi, was drawn into the secret whirlpool of the Forty-Two Chapters because of a mysterious letter asking for help. This secret volume, which records the dragon veins of the Ming Dynasty and the stone carvings of Shaolin Tathagata, has attracted the struggle between the three forces of Tiandihui, Xichang and Xuanming Sect. When Wei Xiaobao discovers a peerless treasure engraved with Sanskrit in the underground palace of Shaolin Temple, when he starts a life-and-death duel with the twin devils Queen Mother Thousand Hands and Young Master Nilin, when he discovers that the important officials in the court are actually hypocrites who rebelled against the Ming and surrendered to the Qing... How will this clever young man from a businessman's background find a glimmer of hope between power and morality by relying on the true meaning of "anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming" taught by Chen Jinnan of the Tiandihui? In the rivers and lakes where swords, swords, shadows and beauties are intertwined, can he solve the ultimate mystery behind the forty-two chapters of the sutra, which is related to the Qing Dynasty Zuo and the Han family?