In the second year of Da Jinsuihe, the night market in Jinjing was brightly lit, and no one knew that the iron hooves from the north had trampled the frozen soil of Zhenbeiguan.
Zhang Chonglie, the general who protected the country, guarded the pass for twelve years. His 4,000 remnant soldiers fought against the 300,000 cavalry of the Di Dynasty. He wrote one letter after another in blood. The response in the court was always "the treasury is empty." The late Emperor Meng Zhen defied all opinions and led the expedition in person. The emperor and his ministers knelt in the wind and snow. One said, "I brought myself here", and the other said, "It is hard to repay the loss by breaking one's body and bones." That was the last light of Jin Dynasty.
The following year, the late emperor died and the eight-year-old child emperor ascended the throne. The treacherous minister Qin Mo took over the power. Zhang Chonglie was dismissed from office and returned to his hometown, where he opened a martial arts school to teach people self-defense. Anyone who came would be welcomed with a liter of rice and two eggs. The disciples he taught were all over the government and the public, but when the knife of the imperial court was put to his neck, no disciple dared to stand up. Qin Mo was afraid of his reputation and bribed the people closest to him - the bronze seal engraved with "Teacher's kindness is like a mountain" would eventually be stained with his master's blood.
Fourteen-year-old Zhang Jin inherited his father's sword and an oath: "The people are innocent." But he didn't know that in this dynasty where treacherous ministers ruled and all loyalties were reduced to ashes, all oaths had only one ending.
Turn into ashes.
"Oath" - dedicated to everyone who burns himself in the darkness.
