Before the Trial Cliff, he leaps into a deadly trap. Deep in the snake pit, the wild and unruly Wei Xiao tears through a nest of snakes with his bare hands. “Gu Heng, that was a dangerously bold move.” Later, he becomes a fearsome force who shakes the martial world, able to turn the tides at will. He becomes a master strategist who holds the reins of power and plots every move with care. The world says the peerless hero and the great statesman met when they were nobodies, yet no one knows that the self-sacrifice that saved you that day was the wise man's way of paving the only path to survival for you.