An orphaned mechanic reforms after being manipulated into a tomb conspiracy and leads a righteous resistance against Zhao Yuanqi.
Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases
A Desperate Mechanical Gift
Li Yanzhi is introduced as an orphan who uses exceptional mechanical skill to support vulnerable people. His need to help them makes him accept Zhao Yuanqi's assignment.
Key Events
Li Yanzhi's Orphaned Life — Li Yanzhi lives as an orphan and relies on exceptional mechanical ingenuity. Characters: Li YanzhiLocation: Ming Dynasty settlement
Supporting the Vulnerable — Li works to feed old, weak, sick, and homeless people. Characters: Li YanzhiLocation: Ming Dynasty settlement
Zhao's Assignment — Zhao Yuanqi entrusts Li with helping tomb raiders. Characters: Zhao Yuanqi, Li YanzhiLocation: Ming Dynasty settlement
Approaching the Ancient Tomb — Li joins the operation targeting an ancient tomb. Characters: Li YanzhiLocation: Ancient tomb
Studying the Mechanism — Li applies his mechanical expertise to the tomb's ancient mechanism. Characters: Li YanzhiLocation: Ancient tomb
Opening the Tomb — The tomb-raiding operation succeeds in opening the ancient tomb. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Zhao YuanqiLocation: Ancient tomb
The Tomb's Bloody Secret
Li helps tomb raiders overcome an ancient mechanism and open the tomb. He then discovers that Zhao's operation conceals a terrifying conspiracy.
Key Events
Opening the Tomb — The tomb-raiding operation succeeds in opening the ancient tomb. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Zhao YuanqiLocation: Ancient tomb
The Hidden Conspiracy — Li discovers that Zhao's operation serves a terrifying conspiracy. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Zhao YuanqiLocation: Ancient tomb
Recognizing Manipulation — Li realizes that his good intentions were used to advance evil. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Zhao YuanqiLocation: Ancient tomb
Fear of Becoming Evil — Li fears becoming a sinister figure responsible for widespread harm. Characters: Li YanzhiLocation: Ancient tomb
Li's Moral Reform — Li rejects his previous course and returns to the righteous path. Characters: Li YanzhiLocation: Ancient tomb
Atonement Through Resistance
Li realizes that he has been manipulated and fears becoming an agent of evil. He reforms and joins Qin Yu and Xuan Yangzi against Zhao.
Key Events
Li's Moral Reform — Li rejects his previous course and returns to the righteous path. Characters: Li YanzhiLocation: Ancient tomb
Seeking Chongyang Allies — Li joins Qin Yu and Xuan Yangzi in opposing Zhao's conspiracy. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Chongyang religious grounds
Resistance Alliance — The three allies coordinate their effort to dismantle the tomb plot. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Chongyang religious grounds
Planning the Countermove — The resistance prepares to challenge Zhao's expanding conspiracy. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Chongyang religious grounds
Returning to the Tomb — Li and his Chongyang allies return to confront the tomb operation. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Ancient tomb
The Countermove at the Tomb
The resistance returns to challenge the conspiracy. Li compensates for his lack of martial arts with mechanical ingenuity while Qin and Xuan support the effort.
Key Events
Returning to the Tomb — Li and his Chongyang allies return to confront the tomb operation. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Ancient tomb
Li Uses Ingenuity — Although unable to use martial arts, Li relies on mechanical ingenuity. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Ancient tomb
Disrupting the Tomb Operation — The resistance works to dismantle the operation centered on the tomb. Characters: Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Ancient tomb
Zhao Escalates the Threat — Zhao's conspiracy threatens to unleash a bloody storm as resistance intensifies. Characters: Zhao Yuanqi, Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Ancient tomb
Resistance Against Zhao — Li, Qin, and Xuan directly oppose Zhao's plan at the tomb. Characters: Zhao Yuanqi, Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Ancient tomb
Crushing the Eunuch's Plot
Zhao's plan threatens a bloody storm, bringing the opposing forces into direct confrontation. Li and his allies ultimately crush the conspiracy.
Key Events
Resistance Against Zhao — Li, Qin, and Xuan directly oppose Zhao's plan at the tomb. Characters: Zhao Yuanqi, Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Ancient tomb
Li Crushes the Conspiracy — Li uses his ingenuity and allied support to crush Zhao's conspiracy. Characters: Zhao Yuanqi, Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Ancient tomb
The Evil Plan Fails — Zhao's sinister tomb-centered plan is stopped by the reformed Li and his allies. Characters: Zhao Yuanqi, Li Yanzhi, Qin Yu, Xuan YangziLocation: Ancient tomb
Story Breakdown
Orphaned Responsibility — Li's difficult circumstances and compassion motivate his later choices.
Life as an Orphan — Li Yanzhi is introduced as an orphan with exceptional mechanical ability.
Helping the Vulnerable — He seeks to feed old, weak, sick, and homeless people.
Zhao's Recruitment — Zhao Yuanqi uses Li's circumstances to bring him into the tomb operation.
The Eunuch's Assignment — Zhao entrusts Li with helping tomb raiders.
A Dangerous Opportunity — Li accepts the task because it can support the people relying on him.
Ancient Tomb Operation — Li's ingenuity enables the opening of the tomb targeted by the conspirators.
Breaking the Mechanism — Li helps overcome the ancient tomb mechanism.
Opening the Tomb — The tomb-raiding operation reaches its immediate objective.
Moral Awakening — Li discovers the evil purpose behind the work he has performed.
Conspiracy Revealed — Li learns that the tomb operation serves a terrifying plan.
Fear of Corruption — He worries that his actions may make him responsible for great evil.
Chongyang Alliance — Li reforms and gains support from Qin Yu and Xuan Yangzi.
Return to Righteousness — Li rejects manipulation and chooses to oppose Zhao.
Religious Allies — Qin Yu and Xuan Yangzi join Li's resistance.
Countering the Conspiracy — The allies use cooperation and Li's technical ability to disrupt Zhao's plan.
Return to the Tomb — The resistance confronts the plot at its ancient-tomb center.
Mechanical Resistance — Li compensates for his lack of martial arts with ingenuity.
Bloody Storm Threat — Zhao's conspiracy reaches its most dangerous stage and forces a direct confrontation.
Zhao's Escalation — The eunuch's plan threatens to unleash a bloody storm.
Allies Stand Together — Li, Qin, and Xuan oppose Zhao as a united resistance.
Conspiracy Defeated — Li completes his moral transformation by stopping the conspiracy he once helped enable.
Li's Final Countermove — Li uses his ingenuity to crush Zhao's conspiracy.
Restored Moral Path — The resolution confirms Li's return from manipulated helper to righteous opponent.
Times of Ming Dynasty. Li Yanzhi is an orphan who looks good at all kinds of black technology. In order to feed a group of old, weak, sick, and homeless, he had to be entrusted by the eunuch Zhao Yuanqi to help the tomb thieves get rid of the ancient tomb organ and open the tomb of Huang Chao. Unexpectedly, Zhao Yuanqi and Hanzi Jiang Hanzi used Huang Chao to plot a terrifying conspiracy that would surely lead to a bloody storm. Li Yanzhi finds that he is helping others to abuse, and may become a sinister who has caused a lot of evil. Li Yanzhi reformed the evil and returned to the right, and decided to stop the conspiracy of Zhao Yuanqi and Jiang Hanzi together with Xuan Yangzi and Qin Yu of the Chongyang religion. Li Yanzhi, who is completely incapable of martial arts, desperately crushed the conspiracy of the eunuch Zhao Yuanqi
