Tang Jue wakes up from a dream to find himself the heir of a prince's estate. His father is the dynasty's war god, and his mother is a sacred maiden of a sect. Everyone thinks he is a hopeless, profligate wastrel, little knowing that he has long since awakened a system and grows stronger simply by sleeping. The Heavenly Inquiry ceremony, the academy rivalry, the spring imperial examination. Unwittingly, those former peaks have already been trampled beneath his feet!