The crimson moon hangs in the sky, and demonic miasma shrouds the world. Great cities stand like isolated islands, teetering on the brink beneath the claws of monsters. Human lives are cheap, and immortality is a distant dream. In this desperate, narrow opening, humanity has struggled onto four thorny paths: martial cultivators temper their bodies and fight at close range; immortal cultivators comprehend the Dao and command the wind and rain; Confucian cultivators nurture their vital energy and overcome evil with righteousness; and military cultivators form battle arrays, building cities with their own flesh and blood.
Lin Feng was born amid the smoke of war on the border and witnessed his loved ones die in the jaws of monsters. Family vendettas and clan hatred forged within him a heart devoted to protecting others. He set aside his dream of personal martial prowess and devoted himself to the most perilous, shortest-lived path of all: military cultivation. Through a hundred battles and the tempering of battle formations, he rose through blood and fire to become the soul of the military blade, a figure who struck terror into monsters. Yet the power of military cultivators came from the strength of the masses, and was constrained by it as well. There was no path to immortality. Millions of soldiers lived like blades of grass, and no matter how great their achievements, they could not withstand the blades of time.
Unwilling! Unyielding! Lin Feng traversed dangerous lands, sought answers in fragments of ancient texts, questioned refined scholars about the Dao, and learned from the bodies of martial cultivators. On this journey that the world regarded as a dead end, he would carve open a way to life! He would fuse the strengths of a hundred schools and forge an undying battle soul. When the final battle that would decide humanity's survival arrived, he stood before an army of thousands, with behind him...
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