Ironclad Beetles: King of Blade, Fate's Design

The first-generation Sacred Beast Team, including Chiyan Chenxing, Kai Jia Yuanzhen, and Gangtie Long, won the Royal Invitational Championship. The title brought more than the honor of being crowned the nation’s strongest Blade King racer. The winner could also become prime minister, assisting the king in running the affairs of state. It was, in a word, The Outcast, with power over everyone but one. The first-generation Sacred Beast Team’s overwhelming strength crushed Zhuye Qing’s dream of becoming prime minister of the Beetle Kingdom, leaving him consumed by resentment. Driven by power and desire, Zhuye Qing sent the Devil Team, made up of former professional assassins, to murder the first-generation Sacred Beast Team. In the end, some members of the team were killed, while others fled. Zhuye Qing fabricated evidence that the Sacred Beast Team had plotted a rebellion (it was false). After taking credit for quelling the supposed rebellion, he got his wish and became prime minister. But months later, at the professional league’s Royal Invitational, the Wuling Team, which had been eliminated in the semifinals, defeated the Devil Team and claimed the professional championship. Wuling Team captain Qiu Yunhe was also awarded the new title of the nation’s strongest Blade King racer. But the good times did not last. The Devil Team’s Demon King, Zhuye Qing’s subordinate, wanted to become the strongest Blade King racer. He had thought Chiyan Chenxing was dead, and that no one could defeat him. Qiu Yunhe proved the exception. Zhuye Qing had no intention of getting involved. He had already become prime minister. But the Demon King held a grudge and took matters into his own hands. He ordered Bloodthirsty, a veteran member of the Devil Team, to lead his men in wiping out the Wuling Team, killing Qiu Yunhe, and chasing his wife and child to the edge of a cliff. At the last moment, Qiu Yunhe’s wife, Xia Shuhuai, sent their young son, Qiu Yunxiao, to the Chiyan family in Camellia Village. She was then killed by the assassins.