Qin state is at the Western edge of Chinese Civilization. General Ouki is one of Qin's Six Great Generals. This was the warring states period. 7 states were at war inside China. Kings sent out their armies with hundreds of thousands of soldiers. 500 years of bloodshed showed no signs of ending. The Western state of win, 2 boys were about to change the course of history. Orphaned by war, Shin / Xin (Kento Yamazaki) is sold as a slave to a small village, where he befriends Hyou / Piao (Ryo Yoshizawa), another slave. Shin had seen General Ouki marching with his army and found him to be amazing. Growing up, Shin and Hyou train together, dreaming of escaping their low status and eventually becoming great generals. Hyou tells Shin that the only route to escape the slave status is through a sword. Shoubunkun / Chang Wen Jun (Masahiro Takashima) visits their village in search of soldiers to aid the king Eisei / Ying Zheng (Ryo Yoshizawa), but he will only accept Hyou. Sometime later a mortally wounded Hyou appears at Shin's house, warning him that Eisei's brother, Seikyou / Cheng Jiao (Kanata Hongo), has started a power struggle and urging him to go to a point marked on a map he gives him. Shin sets off immediately, not knowing that his village has been set on fire and all the villagers murdered by Seikyou's army. At the meet-up point, Shin finds Eisei, the king of Qin, where they are ambushed by a skilled Shukyou assassin. Shin realizes that Hyou was accepted into the army to serve as Eisei's double due to his bearing a resemblance to the king. Shin kills the assassin after a prolonged struggle. Shin and Eisei watch Shin's village burning and Eisei knows that these are Seikyou's soldiers who are still hunting for him. Shin and Eisei escape through a mountain path with help from Ten / He Liao Diao (Kanna Hashimoto), a mountain tribe child who had accompanied the bandits that had previously ambushed Shin. Ten's motivation is money in exchange for saving the life of a King. Shin is livid with Eisei for treating Hyou's life as if it had no value. Eisei says that he is fighting a war and will use anything to make sure that he wins. Eisei says that he never kept Hyou in the dark and that he knew the risks. General Ouki approaches Seikyou and presents him with Shoubunkun's head. Genral Si Shi (Masaya Kato) interjects that the head is unrecognizable in its deformed state. General Ouki demands Shoubunkun's domain in exchange for his head. Seikyou grants the request. As the three reach the bamboo forest, they are attacked by another assassin. Despite blaming Eisei for Hyou's death, Shin defeats the assassin but is poisoned by one of his darts. The three take refuge at an ancient summer resort to help Shin recuperate, while Shin learns that Hyou had voluntarily sacrificed himself to serve Eisei, and about Eisei's bitter rivalry with Seikyou, his brother. Eisei says that his mother was a dancer, while Seikyou's mother had a royal lineage. Seikyou disapproved of Eisei because of his commoner blood. Eisei's remaining army finally arrive at the summer resort, including Shoubunkun, who was previously assumed to have been killed by General Ouki / General Wang Qi (Takao Osawa). Shoubunkun reveals that his army was ambushed by general Ouki, but at the right moment, Hyou appeared, impersonating Eisei, and marshaled the troops. Hyou then lured General Ouki away, so Shoubunkun and his army could remain intact. The army is outnumbered by Seikyou's army of 80,000 soldiers, while Eisei admits that Lu Buwei, the only person who can outmatch him, is also after the throne. Lu Buwei has an army of 200,000 soldiers which vastly outnumbers Seikyou's 80,000 men. Eisei's chooses to seek out help from the Mountain Tribe, a former ally of the Qin royal family that had been betrayed 400 years ago. As they rise into the mountains, they are captured by the Mountain Tribe and brought forth to the chieftain, Youtanwa / Yang Duan He (Masami Nagasawa). Eisei says that his vision is of a unified China, with no internal borders. Youtanwa orders Shin to be beheaded to test Eisei's loyalty, but Shin's dedication to Eisei's goal and mannerisms impress her, after which she announces that the Mountain Tribe will be affiliated with the Qin royalty again. Eisei's army arrives at the royal palace disguised as part of the Mountain Tribe, under the pretense of helping Seikyou fight against Lu Buwei. Jie Shi (Renji Ishibashi), Seikyou's advisor, allows only 50 people inside, and 10 of them to meet with Seikyou. Just inside the gates, Eisei initiates an attack, while Shin, Ten, and Bi (Shinnosuke Mitsushima) use the underground passageway to reach the throne room and assassinate Seikyou. Shin's group is intercepted by General Saji / Zuo Ci (Tak Sakaguchi), Eisei's former general, who sends Lang Kai (Ami 201) the Executioner after them. Shin kills Lang Kai with the help of the Mountain Tribe, and when they reach Seikyou's room, General Saji defeats Shin's group. Just when it seems General Saji will succeed in killing the exhausted Shin, Shin's memory of Hyou and belief in his own dreams brings him renewed strength and he kills General Saji. Seikyou's council flees, but Ten gouges out Jie Shi's eye with a dart and is stabbed by him before he dies. While Ten is safe thanks to wearing armor, Seikyou uses their distraction to escape. In the courtyard, Seikyou confronts Eisei but is easily defeated. Eisei spares Seikyou but beats him up to punish him for the suffering he caused. General Ouki and his army appear in the courtyard where he asks Eisei what he will do as king and threatens to behead him if he does not provide a satisfactory answer. Eisei vows to unite China under the Warring States period, even using force as a means to ensure that there would be peace in the future. Satisfied with his answer, General Ouki allies with Eisei and orders Seikyou's remaining army to retreat. With the battle won, Shin revels in the glory of making both his and Hyou's dreams come true. Shoubunkun realizes that Ouki kept his army on standby to protect civilians and he took control of Shoubunkun''s estates to keep his family and loyal men safe during the upheaval.
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