Hong Yin Era

In the forty-one year of Hong Yin calendar, spring. A kind of crimson liquid metal drives the steel behemoths and war machines of the Western Continent. It's energy, it's wealth, it's power - and it's a source of disaster. Half a year ago, the small eastern country Xilan discovered a vein of high-purity silver with astonishing reserves. The news spread, and the entire Western Continent was excited. The Holy See and other countries are plotting an expedition to the east, excuses are being made, and war is about to break out. At the same time, an old merchant ship named "Changfeng" was sailing to the West carrying 63 Eastern students. They are the sixth batch of students sent by the Imperial Master Gu Yanzhi in the past twenty years - to learn the enemy's language, to spy on the enemy's technology, and to awaken an ancient empire from its slumber. Sinzhou is among them. A young man who came from a poor family and devoted himself solely to machinery, armed with a worn-out notebook and a letter of recommendation that was neither humble nor condescending, embarked on a journey with an ending that he could not predict. What he didn't know was that before he reached the Western Continent, the balance of the war had begun to tilt. What he didn't know was that the steel and steam he longed to learn would soon overwhelm his hometown. He only knew that Daxia didn't have much time left.