Martial Venerable!

In the ninth year of Yongchang during the Great Jing dynasty, foreign powers bullied the nation while the court proved incompetent. Defeat followed defeat, and territory was ceded and indemnities paid in the pursuit of peace, sending the Central Plains into decline and leaving the people unable to make a living. Billions in reparations were wrung from the people's blood and sweat, while excessive taxes and levies drained the common folk to the bone. Demons and monsters also ran rampant, leaving the people like livestock awaiting slaughter, their lives worth no more than weeds. Yet the imperial court remained extravagantly luxurious, and every stone in the Summer Palace had been forged from the flesh and blood of the people.

Demons and monsters ravage the world, foreign powers oppress the nation, the Jing court is benighted, and the Central Plains sink into ruin.

That year, Su Yu awoke from death in Pig Cage Walled City, the provincial capital of Guangfu.