A young man who bore the hatred of his father spent twenty years learning one thing during the Song-Xia war: killing is easy, but living is difficult.
In the first year of Qianxing, Yan'an Prefecture. General Jiang Wuya of the Song Army was framed as a collaborator with the enemy and beheaded because he impeached his superiors for deducting military pay. The wife hanged herself from a beam. His son Jiang Yunqi, who had just turned one year old, was taken away by Taoist Qingxuzi and hid in Zhongnan Mountain.
Eighteen years later, Jiang Yunqi went down the mountain to seek revenge. He thought his enemy was Zhao Chongde, the commander of the Forbidden Army - the man who framed his father with his own hands. But he soon discovered that what really killed him was the leader of the Demon Cult, Li Hanshan, and the giant network behind him that enveloped the two countries of Song and Xia.
In order to avoid pursuit, Jiang Yunqi fled to Xixia and was adopted as his adopted son by the Prime Minister Helianyuan. He wore Xixia people's clothes, ate Xixia people's food, and followed the Xixia army southward - but he never killed a Song person. Every time there was a battle, he walked at the back; when he saw the Song army defeated, he walked around.
In the battle of Haoshuichuan, 200,000 Song troops were buried in the valley. Jiang Yunqi stood among the corpses of Song Jun and met the person he was most afraid of seeing in his life - Liu Qingyin. The girl who once saved him and smiled broadly looked at the Xixia clothes on his body and said only four words: "You voted for Xia."
From then on, three people became entangled: Jiang Yunqi, Liu Qingyin, and Helianyuan's adopted daughter Luo Xingye. A Song person, a Xia person, a person who doesn't know who he is. They fled together, killed together, and lived together.
Ten years later, Li Hanshan arrived as promised. By the Qiantang River, broken swords versus long knives. When Jiang Yunqi thrust out the last sword, he suddenly understood what his master said before he died:
"Stay alive."
