The Zhou family moved eastward, the Jiuding was covered in dust, and the ruins of Luoyang hide the secret that changed the world.
Weapons discriminator Ji Ye was chased by Zheng Jun because of half of a tripod fragment, but he foiled three ingenious plots during his escape:
Yan tide, a female Confucian disciple, disguised herself as a man and used a ritual array to forge a secret edict from Emperor Zhou. When the green jade on her fingertips resonated with the fragments of the cauldron, she threatened coldly: "If you dare to reveal my plot, I will crush your fragments first."
The rebellious Mo Li secretly built a repeating crossbow cart. The word "non-attack" on the arrow was glowing coldly. He raised his eyebrows when he threw the styptic powder to Ji Ye: "Want to use the mechanism to escape? First remove the snagging ropes of the pursuers."
The witch from the Chu land asked Chu Wei's vines to be entangled with Zheng Jun's secret letter. When he saw Ji Ye, he was as alert as a cat: "Blood contract can detect lies. Anyone who touches my vines will have their wrist bones broken."
The four people were forced to form an alliance because of the tripod fragments, but a tacit understanding was born out of suspicion: Ji Ye saw through the flaws in Yan Xi's ritual array and instead helped her to make up for it; Mo Li's mechanism technique can trap Chu Wei's vines, but he always defends her first when she is in danger; Chu Wei's eavesdropped military information will be accurately delivered to Ji Ye's hands - even if there was an argument about "using the common people as bait" just moments ago.
From the poisonous wine trap of the Kuiqiu Alliance to the showdown between scholars and spirits in Jixia Academy, they disrupted the chess game between Jin and Chu with the combination of "ritual vessels + mechanisms + blood contracts + distinguishing vessels", exposed Tian Heng's conspiracy to usurp Qi, and even opened a glimmer of hope for dissidents under the iron law of Shang Yang's reform.
When the Qin army crushed Luoyang, the four tripod fragments spelled out the word "harmony" in the blood. Jiye finally realized: Machiavellian tactics are never a plan to win alone, but the rules of giving, the sharpness of weapons, and the compassion of souls, to find gaps in coexistence in troubled times.
