Carrying Wine, I Ask the Sword

Bodhidharma created the Seventy-Two Supreme Skills, sparking a martial arts rivalry between the warriors beyond the passes and those of the Central Plains.

More than a thousand years later, during the Ming Dynasty, warriors from beyond the passes pose a grave threat to the Central Plains.

An extraordinary crisis calls for extraordinary measures.

Dugu Yan, leader of the Central Plains martial arts alliance, believes that "real combat is the best way to learn martial arts." He has a senior martial arts figure "frame" him, making him a public enemy whom everyone wants dead. He then roams the martial world as Song Letian, the "Madman Seeking Defeat," challenging the heroes of the Central Plains in a series of breathtaking fights, sword in hand and wine at his side.

Ouyang Yulan, the "Number One Beauty of Jiangnan," disguises herself as a man and kindly hosts her four senior brothers, whom she has not seen in years, at the Heroes' Tower. But human nature has grown depraved, and the four brothers subject her to every kind of humiliation.

Song Letian steps in to mediate, exposing his identity as a public enemy of the martial world and drawing attacks from numerous sects.

As Song Letian and Ouyang Yulan face one breathtaking fight after another, they endure trials of "climbing a mountain of blades," "descending into a sea of fire," and "waiting until the seas run dry and the rocks crumble."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.