In Lin'an City, shrouded in mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, the unsolved case of Tianji Pavilion's murder ten years ago has stirred up trouble again. Shen Yanbai, a master of calligraphy and painting, is wearing half a dragon-patterned jade pendant. He encounters Chu Zhaonan, an agent from the Six Gates, on a broken bridge, and they work together to investigate a bizarre murder. From the strange inverse scale scars of the man in black to the broken pages of the "Scroll of Heaven" hidden in the underground palace of Leifeng Pagoda, every step brings out the dust-laden secrets of the world. When the mysterious old man strums the bloody strings, and when the nine-dragon pattern on the bronze token resonates with the blood-led prophecy, this pursuit spanning ten years will eventually reveal a shocking conspiracy that can subvert the martial arts world - and they are just the chess players in the game, and also the game-breakers.
Purpose: The novel takes the two male protagonists as the main line to pursue the truth behind the Tianji Pavilion's destruction of the family. The novel's purpose focuses on the eternal pursuit of justice and truth, the perseverance of human nature in the vortex of conspiracy, and the philosophical thinking of fate and resistance. The ten-year pursuit of the protagonists Shen Yanbai and Chu Zhaonan is not only to uncover an unsolved case, but also to use a weak spark to fight against the darkness in the martial arts world of power struggle and interest game, explaining the power of faith and friendship; at the same time, through the competition between the "Reverse Scale Order" and the "Tiangji Scroll", it shows people's choices in the face of huge temptations, and explores whether justice can penetrate layers of fog and open up light in chaos.