In an age of chaos, the world is a furnace and human lives are worth less than grass. Luo Liang, a farmer's son from the north known as A Liang, joins the border army in his father's place and steps into a military camp surrounded by mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He carries a dull, broken jade pendant he found, thinking it was nothing more than an ordinary good-luck charm. But through nightmares and uncanny encounters on the brink of death, he catches a glimpse of ancient golden writing hidden within it.
