Liu Bowen, founding strategist of the Great Ming, was dissatisfied with the powerful minister Hu Weiyong's persecution of the empire's founding heroes. He went to the palace to meet Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and left behind the Song of the Sesame Cake, beginning a legendary chapter in history.
To hunt down the former commanders of the rebel kings who had gone into hiding instead of surrendering, and to keep the empire's founding heroes in check, Zhu Yuanzhang established a special agency called the Imperial Guard. It unleashed a tremendous upheaval that swept across the realm.
The young swordsman Zhao Feiyu sets out on a blood-soaked journey through the martial world to uncover the truth behind his father's murder. After enduring countless hardships, he finally exposes the truth. But as the facts come to light, one astonishing secret after another, tangled and beyond the world's wildest imagination, is revealed.
The struggle for power in the imperial court and the treachery of the martial world draw these ambitious heroes, martial arts masters, ministers, and nobles into one brutal, bloody contest after another.
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