In the eleventh year of Wanli, the sealing stone of the Dingling Underground Palace was shattered, and the ancient terracotta warriors were about to be destroyed. Thirty-nine-year-old lame veteran Zhao Tieshuan wanted to live quietly, but was forced into the underground palace by the ruthless young Jin Yiwei Baihu Zhu Che with a knife on his neck. A drop of blood awakened the mausoleum-suppressing magic weapon that had been sleeping in the darkness for hundreds of years, and also revealed the deepest terrifying secret of the Ming Dynasty.
One is the last tombkeeper of the Xingtian clan who is afraid of death, and the other is the seventh grandson of Emperor Jianwen who is responsible for restoring the country. Faced with Emperor Wanli's greed, Dongchang's conspiracy, and the Manchu civil and military calculations, the two were forced to bind and embark on a journey of crushing the masters of the court with terracotta warriors. Eight hundred soldier figurines, seventy-two lieutenant figurines, twelve general figurines... When the royal figurines under Taizu's Xiaoling Mausoleum see the light of day again, the whole world will tremble.
Why did Zhu Yuanzhang become an emperor from a beggar? Why did Zhu Di insist on moving the capital to Beijing? What was Zheng He looking for during his voyages to the West? When the fog of history is peeled back layer by layer, the fateful showdown between Xingtian's war spirit and the bloodline of the Emperor of Heaven has just begun...
