The Ashen Earth Dragon Chart: A Dynasty's Road to Supremacy

In the final years of the Dayong Dynasty, northern cavalry smash through Yanmen Pass, southern border chieftains carve out their own domains, and a powerful minister assassinates the emperor at court. Zhao Heng, the third prince and a loser in the struggle for power, is deposed and exiled to the desolate “Ashen Lands” of the northwest. In this land of famine and rampant banditry, he unexpectedly awakens the “Map of the Realm” hidden inside his ancestral jade pendant. Using yellow sand as ink and white bones as brushes, he charts a path to turn the tide and seize dominion over the shattered country. From gathering refugees and forging an iron army to swallowing up the feudal lords and fighting foreign enemies, he ultimately uses a corner of the northwest to overturn the chaotic age and rebuild the order of Huaxia.