World: Blending the turmoil of history with the strange intrigues of the martial world, this story takes the Nine Tombs rivalry from The King of the Tombs as its backbone, unfolding a blood-soaked saga of loyalty to family and country.
Core conflict: When the soldiers guarding the frontier see their pay turn into bones scattered beyond the border, and the undercurrents of imperial power and the martial world clash within a thousand-year-old tomb, an orphaned son is forced to take up his sword and carve out a path to survival amid conflicting demands of loyalty and righteousness.
