Jin Han

Believing it rose through the virtue of fire, the Han dynasty foretold its own demise in the character for "ash"—the dying embers of a blazing empire about to be reduced to dust. In AD 184, the Yellow Turban Rebellion erupted. With a single cry from "Grand Preceptor" Zhang Jue, eight provinces rose in revolt, plunging the realm into chaos. Yet within mere months, Zhang Jue died of illness in Jizhou, and the grand momentum of the Yellow Turban uprising dissipated like retreating tides. Yingchuan, Nanyang, Guangzong—the iron hooves of the imperial forces crushed all who dared dream of overthrowing the Han. Yet, upon his sickbed, a pair of tightly closed eyes suddenly opened. A soul from eighteen hundred years in the future awakens inside the dying husk of Zhang Jue. Faced with the terrified gazes of his generals and the impending siege of Huangfusong's massive army outside the city walls, he suppresses the turbulent blood surging in his chest and declares: "Since I have entered this game, I shall carry the banner of the Yellow Sky through to the very end!"