In the autumn of the 23rd year of Guangxu's reign, Qi Yanzhou, a scholar from a poor family, went to the county examination. He was framed by the son of a salt merchant and the deputy examiner. The examination papers were changed. Instead, he was falsely accused of "slandering the imperial court", was stripped of his honor, and was taken to the execution ground.
On the guillotine, the moment the ghost-headed knife fell, Qi Yanzhou suddenly realized that "the literary mind is enlightened" - words are power, and principles can be transformed into forms. He bit the tip of his tongue and wrote in blood "tyranny is fiercer than a tiger". The blood words turned into a tiger and shattered the butcher's knife. There was chaos in the execution ground, and he took advantage of the chaos to escape.
From then on, he had a pair of eyes that could see through the truth behind the words:
The squire's "good deeds and good deeds" monument turned into a bloody "exploitation skill" in his eyes; the secret letter in his mentor's sleeve revealed his reputation for trading with salt merchants; the "iron-faced censor"'s illustrious official power was actually a tonic magic that used boys and girls as the furnace; the dragon vein array underground in the Gongyuan was silently devouring the literary essence of thousands of students to support the dragon of literary spirit entangled in chains deep in the imperial mausoleum.
Along the way, he exposed hypocrisy and cut through falsehoods. He condensed the ink sword with "the people are noble and the king is light", turned the "Afanggong Fu" into a fire dragon, and used "The Hungry People" to draw thunder from the sky. In the Forbidden City, he had a verbal battle with corrupt scholars in the Imperial Academy, and used the "Hai Guo Tu Zhi" to refute his fallacy of "Yidi spiritual energy", and was thrown into the sky prison.
Under the prison, he glimpsed the foundation of the dynasty: the jade seal passed down to suppress the ruins of the monument "People are the most precious", and under his feet were the bones of thousands of scholars. He shook the jade seal with the words "people are the most precious" and the underground palace collapsed.
On the top of Mount Tai, he founded the "Mo Xia", using ink as his soul and Xia as his bones; on the top of the Forbidden City, he wrote "Xin Min Shuo", and every word turned into fire and turned into thousands of sparks, lighting up the entire capital.
Above the ruins, the green lotus in the ink pool blooms proudly - "The East Awakens!