In the twentieth year of the Jiajing reign, Huasheng fled to Zhejiang with his older sister. While delivering vegetables to the city with companions from his village, they encountered pirates attacking the city. By a twist of fate, a recruiting squad seized him for military service. From then on, he laid down his hoe and took up a steel blade for killing.
Cruel enemies and fearless comrades quickly turned Huasheng from a farmer’s son into a capable soldier.
Japanese pirates, bandits, garrison troops, corrupt officials, unscrupulous merchants, and ordinary people: Huasheng fought his way through them all, earning great merit in battle even as he sank into deep confusion.
The road ahead was always shrouded in mist, and the end of the war was nowhere in sight.
Even the brothers who had shared life and death with him gradually went their separate ways as they searched for direction, until some even turned their blades and guns on one another.
Huasheng stumbled onward, unable to make out the way ahead or see the end...
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