A single battle-axe cleaves through the chaos of the Sui and Tang dynasties. Why do Cheng Yaojin's three axe strokes always land on history's most vulnerable points?
Cheng Yaojin, a rough-and-ready salt smuggler, only wanted to survive the chaos. Then he ambushed an imperial convoy in Changye Forest. His axe split open a chest, revealing a rubbing of the Imperial Jade Seal, and with it, a shocking secret spanning two dynasties.
From then on, his “accidental axe” could no longer be stopped. He cleaved through the fighting ring at Wagang Stronghold, intercepted a deadly arrow at Xuanwu Gate, and exposed Turkic spies during the prosperous Zhenguan era... Each time he burst onto the scene, he struck fear into his enemies and put his brothers at ease.
The world mocked him as a crude brute and called him a fool, never realizing that beneath his axe he protected the common people, upheld his brothers' oath, and thwarted plots that threatened the empire.
When the truth buried for so long was finally revealed, everyone realized: This world was a chessboard for scholars and strategists, yet an illiterate brute had carved out a path to the heavens with three strokes of his axe!
