This is a familiar age, a land won in blood by the old Qin people. Whether they burn books and bury scholars or build the Great Wall, this is the Qin people's realm.
This is an unfamiliar world, where people move through the martial world and the imperial court, while demons and monsters watch menacingly from the north. This is an age of the supernatural, where one can sever a river with a sword or shatter mountains with a single punch...
The empire has yet to reach its golden age, but already faces trouble both within and without. At last, the exhausted Qin Shi Huang sends the most promising young scion of the Ying clan, whose ancestral surname is Ji, out of the palace and plunges him into a realm of surging undercurrents...