Lu Fan is stranded in another world. His only way home is through sacrifice.
After draining the first warrior, he watched the man collapse to the ground, crying out his daughter's name. A faint light glowed in his palm, and a line of text appeared on the scrap of a page: Open all nine locks, and the way home will appear. First lock: scatter a hundred soldiers.
He had only burned one. Ninety-nine more to go.
And the Martial Affairs Bureau's pursuers were right behind him.
Then he saw another line on the back of the scrap.
"Someone else burned people before. His name was Xiao Wang. He stopped when he reached the third region."
Who was Xiao Wang? Why did he stop? At the end of the road, was it home, or a trap?