Azure Dragon of the Great Desert

During the reign of Emperor Zhezong of the Northern Song, the Western Regions are in turmoil.

Yun Zhan, an outcast of the Xingxiu Sect, bears a deep blood feud and is hunted by the entire martial world of the Western Regions. At the brink of despair, he meets Li Suyi, a talented woman from Jiangnan traveling west alone to find her missing father, and Xuannan, a Shaolin disciple sent by imperial decree to escort a sacred Buddhist relic westward.

The fates of the three become intertwined through the legendary Kunlun Ruins. The ruins are the eye of the Central Plains’ dragon vein, influencing the fate of the realm and drawing the covetous attention of Western Xia, the Liao dynasty, Tibet, and martial factions of every stripe. Yun Zhan’s hidden identity as a “Guardian of the Ruins,” ancient secrets in Li Suyi’s father’s notes, and the Buddhist compassion upheld by Xuannan intertwine into a stirring epic amid a catastrophe sweeping across the Western Regions.

They flee for their lives beneath lonely plumes of smoke in the desert, break through deadlocks beyond Yumen Pass, venture deep into Devil City, explore Dunhuang’s secret grottoes, and finally reach the Kunlun Ruins. Faced with the greater good of their country, personal grudges, and the cycle of fate, what will the three choose? The ultimate trial, one that concerns the fate of all under heaven, begins now...