In a war-torn age, an orphan rises to power! A historical saga of power and conquest steeped in traditional Chinese culture. The three-hundred-year-old Dayan Dynasty is nearing its end. Powerful clans scheme against one another, warlords carve up the land, and the people are plunged into misery.
Chen Shuo was an orphan who fought wild dogs for scraps in the mass graves outside Huiyan City. He narrowly escaped a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. By a twist of fate, he received a mysterious military treatise, The Art of Power, from a reclusive scholar of the previous dynasty. From that moment, the wheels of fate began to turn.
From hiding in a ruined temple to secretly learning to read, to risking his life among rebel forces; from securing a foothold in Xishan by building a city and cultivating farmland, to winning over heroes and recruiting famous generals. In the turbulent currents of a treacherous age, he treads carefully, planning every step. He gathers refugees to win hearts, sets rules to establish order, and stands against tyrants to temper his strength.
With the court’s waning authority, the warlords’ ambitions, and the northern tyrant all in his way, how will Chen Shuo use his wisdom and strategy to make his moves in this game called the realm? Watch as a humble orphan sweeps the land clean and founds a new dynasty in an era both rich in culture and brutally unforgiving, writing an epic of imperial power for a man born of humble origins!
