[Traditional fantasy + border troops guarding the pass + military promotion + passionate group portraits]
Outside the nine passes of the northern border, the desolation tide presses on the border; within the nine passes, the lives of the border residents are only worth a confused account in the military merit book.
Xu Yanshan, the son of a military household, boarded the No. 7 Beacon where he was destined to die in order to buy a pair of lung-cold medicine for his mother and to replace his father in the military service. That night, the Guan army abandoned the defense and the enemy cavalry attacked the city. Before his death in battle, the old soldier Zhao Laodun only left one sentence: The fire cannot be extinguished.
When Xu Yanshan held the blood-stained old gun, he inherited the "military soul engraving" left by the deceased for the first time.
Others kill the enemy and gain merit, but only by truly defending a person, a city, or a piece of land can he obtain the strongest form of death in battle. But every move carries the unfulfilled wishes of the deceased, and also carries a price that must be repaid.
From a border soldier to a human martial sage, Xu Yanshan is competing for more than just military merit and realm. He wants every war dead to leave a name and every sacrifice to have an echo.
Until one day, he discovered that the Nine Passes that had guarded the human race for thousands of years were originally a huge furnace that erased the names of the dead...
