Since ancient times, Mayi has been known as “the Gateway to the Three Jin States and the Shield of the Central Plains.” It lies at the frontier where agrarian and nomadic civilizations collide, and has witnessed the Han-Xiongnu wars, the blending of peoples, and the rise and fall of dynasties, leaving behind a rich frontier culture and military heritage.
In the fourth year of the Yuanshou era of the Great Han, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing swept through the Xiongnu with their iron cavalry. Yet behind the unprecedented victory of sealing off Mount Langju Xu lay a shocking secret that could overturn the fabric of time and space. During a night raid on Longcheng, the Black-Armored Army crushed the Xiongnu, but accidentally triggered a celestial anomaly at an altar. The Big Dipper shifted, time and space trembled, and one strange phenomenon followed another.
At the foot of Mount Langju Xu, a pit containing ten thousand black-armored soldiers came to light. Their armor was forged from an unknown metal, far beyond the craftsmanship of the Han dynasty. Deciphering a fragment of an ancient text revealed the Black-Armored Army's fate: to guard the chaos in the flow of time. Huo Qubing accidentally touched the core of time and space and glimpsed an archaeological team from two thousand years in the future. Only then did he learn that he was destined to protect the barriers between worlds and stop temporal disruptions from bringing disaster upon the world.
The young general set aside fame and fortune and vowed to guard the flow of time. From then on, the Black-Armored Army vanished underground. Official history preserved only their victories, erasing every trace of the secret. As the glory of the God of War intertwines with the destiny of time and space, a legendary tale of guardianship, long buried by history, begins.
