Turbid Current Ferryman

A historical fantasy epic set in the troubled times from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the early Northern Song Dynasty. In the second year of Tianyou (905), the murder of Baima Yi sank the "clear stream" into the Yellow River, and also awakened four inhuman beings at the bottom of the river - the "Four Phases of Troubled Times". The orphan brothers Zhao Qingshan and Zhao Wumian were rescued by Bai Xuanji, one of the Four Phases, and their fate changed since then. The elder brother Zhao Qingshan has been silently guarding him all his life, while the younger brother Zhao Wumian has acquired the power of "gaining bones and knowing fate". The two brothers were involved in a secret war between the southern regime and the northern Khitan over the secret of the ancient "Nine Tripods". In Xuanzhou, they got acquainted with Liu Ruyan, who had a blood feud and sneaked into the Jinling power arena under the pseudonym "Xiao Qing", and Zhuge Qingyi, the mysterious daughter of the counselor. In order to seize the power of the "Nine Cauldrons", Han Zhigu, a powerful Khitan minister in the north, imprisoned the Four Prime Ministers and dug up the Yellow River. His target was Bai Xuanji and Zhao Wumian, who was the "key". Zhao Wumian went north alone, deep behind enemy lines, and finally gained insight into the fate of his "key" in the final showdown between the "Four Phases of Troubled Times" and Han Zhigu by the Yellow River. In order to prevent Han Zhigu from using the evil method of blood sacrifice to forcefully open the "Gate of the Yellow River" and avoid the world's catastrophe, Zhao Wumian resolutely reversed the cause and effect at the cost of his soul and turned himself into a "lock" to block the disaster. For the rest of his life, his elder brother Zhao Qingshan watched over his brother's final thoughts alone under the ginkgo tree in Xuanzhou; Liu Ruyan experienced the rise and fall of dynasties and returned in her later years. Under the ginkgo tree that had become a towering tree, she read the inscription "Just remember it". The turbid current is surging and rushing endlessly, and those stories about sacrifice, protection and memory, like this ginkgo tree, stand silently in the time, becoming the most profound witness and inscription of that era of collapse.