Xie Zhao, who was demoted to repair beacons at the border, explored the dragon veins of the imperial mausoleum at night, which triggered the backlash of the Earthly Evil Sutra. An explosion shocked the sky, the imperial mausoleum collapsed, and the dragon energy escaped. The former general Shen Jin led his remnants to revolt. The female recorder Su Yuntang took the opportunity to expose the ironclad evidence of the emperor's usurpation of the throne, while the reclusive alchemist Xuan Jizi quietly laid out a bigger chess game. When Zhou Zhi, the youngest brother of the new emperor, boasted of his destiny, Xie Zhao realized that it was not the dragon's veins that exploded, but the shackles of the entire heaven - and he had no way out.
