After his family is destroyed, Zhou Wenzi, a poor scholar, takes on the identity of Yang Shijiu and becomes an outlaw. He falls under the command of Zhang Yuan, the great villain of Western Xia, and helps carry out a shocking crime that stuns both the Song and Liao dynasties. But fifty of his brothers are slaughtered in the villain’s treacherous rain of arrows. After narrowly escaping death, Shijiu sets out on a path of revenge. Tempered by blood and fire, he transforms from a rash young man into one of the Song dynasty’s greatest assassins. Joining forces with the scholar Zhang Kezhen, he launches repeated surprise attacks on Western Xia’s powerful elite, throwing its political landscape into turmoil with a series of ingenious assassinations. In the end, he turns a family vendetta into a war between nations. This is more than an assassin’s epic of revenge: it is a bloody legend of an ordinary man shaking the world.
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