"Purple Chen Tribulation: The Game of Mountains and Rivers" tells the story of a chess game of power that swept across the Central Plains, Southern Xinjiang, Beidi, and the Western Regions. Shen Jinghan, the son of the Minister of Rites, appears to be a well-known dandy in the capital, but is actually a descendant of the Mohist family. He secretly founded the "Mingzhu Pavilion" to promote reforms with business capital and vowed to break the shackles of hereditary privileges;
At the court, the reform ideals of the third prince Xiao Jingyuan collided with the technical governance ideas of the fifth prince Xiao Jingyan. The vacillation of Lin Wenyuan, the Minister of War, and the rational conservatism of Wang Yan, the censor, gave way to the struggle for the throne. In the rivers and lakes, the secret skills of Xiaoyao, the young director of Hehuan Cult, the awakening of Shadow Pavilion killer Yun Shu, and the bewitching skills of the saint Ayiduo of southern Xinjiang are intertwined, uncovering the ancient grudges between Baiyue and the Central Plains.
Yelulie, the prince of Beidi, seeks mutual trade for the survival of his tribe. Tuobayu, the prince of Khotan in the Western Regions, fights against the trade monopoly to save his sister. The forces of many countries clash at Mochuanguan. When the Shadow Pavilion launches the "Ten Thousand Poisons Devouring the City" and changes in the palace, Shen Jinghan and Su Qingyan join hands with wise ministers in the court, heroes from the Jianghu, and allies from neighboring countries to solve the disaster with wisdom and decide the situation with love. In the mountain and river chess game, they find a new path of "ending war with business and stabilizing the country with law", but they also leave new foreshadowing for the troubled times.
Purpose: to destroy Zichen, rob mountains and rivers, and plan for troubled times