Across the Shenzhou Continent stand a hundred nations: the Panda Kingdom, the Pheasant Kingdom, the Eagle Kingdom, the Cattle-Thief Kingdom, the Chicken-Thief Kingdom, and more!
Six hundred years ago, the Panda Kingdom's eunuch admiral Sanbao made seven voyages to the Western Seas, surveying the earth's ley-line eyes across the Nine Provinces...
Six hundred years later, thirteen men and a single blade battle the Nine Chrysanthemums and storm the Pig Caves...
On New Year's Eve, Yi Yishan boarded a flight to Toyama.
Disguised as a eunuch, he practiced the Sunflower Manual. Inside a box at Bangkok's Temple of the Emerald Buddha lay something passed down through twenty generations from his master's master: the Sea-Suppressing Needle left behind by Zheng He six hundred years ago.
The needle rang.
He had a debt to collect.
The man in the next seat was a tough Northeasterner carrying a wooden club. He clutched a yellowed photograph, and for eighty years he'd survived in the snowy hollows of Changbai Mountain by relying on that face.
At the foot of Mount Fuji, there was also an old soldier who'd crawled out of a mine.
A door-sized plank rested on his shoulder, a knife was tucked into his trousers, and he had been hungry for a hundred years, waiting for someone to call him back to his unit.
The three had never met.
But six hundred years ago, their founding masters had received the same order from the same man aboard the same ship:
Go your separate ways. Wait for the message.
Now the message had come.
On the surface, a sorcerer was causing trouble.
In the shadows, the true ruling family of the Pheasant Kingdom was waiting to settle its debts, one by one.
This wasn't a trip to pick a fight.
It was a journey to collect a debt from six hundred years ago.
And this was only the first ley-line eye...
Six hundred years ago, Zheng He's treasure fleet made seven voyages to the Western Seas!
Six hundred years later, the brothers of Shenzhou head into battle across the world, setting sail for the sea of stars...
