The background of the story focuses on the process of King Qin's conquest of Liuhe from 230 BC to 221 BC. In addition to Li Si and Wei Liao, the most important role is the role of the Nangong family of Qin. The protagonist Nangong Weiming is the legendary younger brother of Ying Zheng. He has a sinister temperament and likes all extreme things. He is one of the masterminds of every plan to destroy the Six Kingdoms because he has gathered a group of all kinds of characters under him.
The four young masters of the four branches of the military strategist are all talented people. In addition, there are also young Geng Sang, a Legalist figure, Wu Xia, a Zajia Wei, Ye Xiao, the number one witchcraft expert in the Chu State, and the resurrected witch cat, the Gu Master of the Zhao State. Even some of the Mohist disciples were ordered by Nangong Weiming to build a mechanism city for them. They have different tasks.
On the other side of the story, Ji Zhiluo, the best swordsman in the Six Kingdoms, is the central character. The master swordsmith Ou Yezi teaches him the Xuanyuan Sword, which contains a prophecy about Ying Zheng. Ying Zheng wants to get the secret, while Nangong wants to get the unique Sword of the Holy Way in the world.
Ji Zhiluo fled from the Chu State to the Qi State, and started the road of resisting the Qin Dynasty with the dead soldiers of the six countries, knowing that it was impossible to do.
The full text is written in the order of Qin's destruction of the six kingdoms. In it, characters from hundreds of schools of thought appear and are accompanied by thoughts from hundreds of schools of thought. The text involves pre-Qin swordsmanship, Yin and Yang Bagua, astronomy and geography, and deduce the troubled times of ancient pre-Qin.