During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, China split.
The dragon fell, the nine tripods were shattered, and the mountains and rivers were full of smell.
This is an age of iron and fire, a desperate situation of broken order and moral decay. The warlords fought like a pack of wolves, and the Khitan cavalry went south like a prairie fire. There was no rooster crow for thousands of miles, and the bones were exposed in the wild.
Li Chengyue, the son of a blacksmith from a humble family, was destined to be the enemy of this era from the moment he witnessed his father being killed by rebels for protecting the secret recipe of a knife.
He has no prominent background, only the tempering skills inherited from his father; there are no thousands of poems and books, only the simple principle that "people cannot stand without faith"; there are no thousands of troops, only three or five companions who live and die together.
From the refugee village deep in the Taihang Mountains to the beacon fire at the top of Youzhou City; from the bloody battle outside Yanmen Pass to the duel on the bank of the Yellow River. Relying on his instinctive desire for "order", he established an isolated island in troubled times that "does not plunder the people, does not kill and surrender, and works together".
But troubled times cannot tolerate Taoyuan.
Torn between ambition and ideals, under the test of betrayal and loyalty, between national justice and political reality, Li Chengyue was forced to embark on a path he had never imagined - from escaping from troubled times to conquering troubled times; from forging swords to forging a country.
