Middle
Dae Joyeong eventually goes to find his father at Goryeo Fortress. Joyeong doesn't tell Dae Jungsang at first, but in the end, they reconcile and return to Goguryeo. On the way, they meet Mimosa, a Baekje citizen. In that time, Dae Joyeong runs into the Khitans and meets Chulin (Chorin in Korean), a Khitan princess, and Li Kaigu (Li Haego in Korean), a Khitan general. Li Kaigu soon becomes Dae Joyeong's greatest rival. Li Kaigu has feelings for Chulin, who falls in love with Dae Joyeong. Li Kaigu, unknown to anyone, is Bu Jikwang's son.
Goguryeo falls with the deaths of Yeon Gaesomun and Yang Manchun. Dae Joyeong does everything in his effort to save Goguryeo, but Bu Kiwon, Sa Bugu and other Goguryeo ministers, with the Tang and Khitan armies, are able to destroy it. Dae Joyeong, with his subordinates Geol Sabiwu and Heuk Sudol, set off to rescue the refugees and, with some surviving Goguryeo officials, makes a second Goguryeo. Dae Joyeong gets Chulin pregnant, but only Chulin knows. Dae Joyeong is nearly killed by Li Kaigu, Geol Sabiwu is captured by Tang, and the second Goguryeo is destroyed after a Silla-aided coup d'état. Li Kaigu takes in Dae Joyeong's son as his own. Only Chulin, Geol Sabiwu, and Li Kaigu know that Chulin's son, named Geom, is Dae Joyeong's son.
Dae Joyeong plans to make the second Goguryeo. He tries many things, buying help from Mimosa and his subordinate Geumlan, and building a new organization, Dong Myeong Cheon Jae Dan that is brought to kill the enemies that brought Goguryeo down. They are aided by the former Goguryeo king, Bojang. Bu Kiwon and Sa Bugu are killed. However, this organization is felled by Li Kaigu. Even as this organization falls, Dae Joyeong and his followers refuse to give up restoring Gorguryeo.
Dae Joyeong acquires two subordinates of Gogturk descent, Gyepilsamun and Tungso. While in battle, to rescue the people captured in the collapse of the Dong Myeong Cheon Jae, Dae Joyeong and Heuk Sudol are captured by the Chinese commander Li Wen, who hates Dae Joyeong with all of his heart. They suffer many hardships, including being forced to fight Wugol, a giant, after being starved for six days but Dae Joyeong eventually unites the slaves to fight against the Chinese. During this time, he meets Mukchol, who eventually becomes Khan of the Gogturks. Dae Joyeong survives by pledging allegiance to China and then fleeing to the lands of Goguryeo. There he begins to build up Goguryeo. Dae Joyeong has married Suk-kyong, King Bojang's niece. In China, Empress Cheuk-cheon has risen to the throne.
Thirteen years later, the Khitans rebel from the Tang, and Dae Joyeong comes to aid the Khitans; in exchange, they ask for all of the thousands of Goguryeo refugees living in the Khitan country. During this time, his tensions with Li Kaigu get bigger and bigger. Dae Joyeong also meets his son Geom and works with him. Li Kaigu is captured, but Dae Joyeong saves him by capturing Li Wen and making a deal with Xue Rengui. Eventually, the reigning king, Li Jinzhong, is assassinated, and the war ends. Dae Joyeong takes the Goguryeo refugees home.
The Khitan country is nearly destroyed by a Tang-Gogturk alliance, but the few defenders are rescued by Dae Joyeong, after he finds out that Geom is his son. Geom, and nearly everyone else, have been aware of this before. When Li Kaigu flees from Dae Joyeong, Dae Jo Yeong nearly kills Li Kaigu, and the Khitans are destroyed. Li Kaigu survives and goes to Tang to become a commander, trading his own eye to show he would be loyal to not only Xue Rengui, but also Tang. Dae Joyeong is leading the last of the refugees to his base in Mount Dong-mo, where he intends to create a new Goguryeo. Li Kaigu is assigned the leading role.
While they are going, the Tang army catches up. Heuk Sudol and Gyepilsamun stay behind to delay the army. Gyepilsamun is killed by Li Kaigu's arrows, and Heuk Sudol stays to avenge him, but is killed by Zhao Renshi (Jo Insa), a Tang commander. The refugees are safe, but Dae Joyeong sets up Chungmuryeong Hill as a huge battlefield for him. The Khitan force under Chulin and Geom cannot block the Tang advance. Dae Joyeong kills Zhao Renshi in an act to avenge his brother, Heuk Sudol. Geumlan is killed by arrows, and Dae Jung Sang is captured. Dae Jung Sang is killed, and that fuels the morale of the Goguryeo-Mohe army so much that out of 30,000 Tang soldiers to enter, less than 1000 leave.
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