On the day Xie Zhao was imprisoned, he detonated the late emperor's military talisman in public, staining the Suzaku Gate with blood. Su Yan used poisonous techniques to fake death to save him, and revealed the shocking secret of the legacy of the previous dynasty and the Black Armored Army. Prince Zhao Yan wants to take advantage of the chaos to regain power, the female general Liu Shuang bloodbaths the government offices, the Confucian minister Chen Huaijin secretly weaves a literary network, and the Shang King Chu Lang holds the suicide note of his late mother. From desperadoes, the two gradually became masters of the world, but the truth is far more bone-gnawing than the military talisman.
