During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the southeastern sea area was unrest, Japanese pirates were raging, and martial arts undercurrents were surging. Lu Cang, a scholar from a poor family, originally wanted to enter the world through literature, but he was involved in a centuries-old secret because of a half-broken piece of jade passed down from his family. The residual jade contains clues to the lost Heavenly Tribulation Sword Book. This book not only contains shocking martial arts, but also involves the mystery of the "Mountain and River Sheji Map" left by the alchemists of the pre-Qin Dynasty. It is said that those who obtain it can control the ups and downs of the country.
In order to protect the residual jade, Lu Cang was chased by the mysterious organization "Jiuyousi" and was forced to jump off a cliff. However, in a desperate situation, he met a strange person and tempered the "Cangming Sword Soul". From then on, he used the sword to question the way of heaven. On the road to the rivers and lakes, he met Su Ni, a quick-witted heroine of the Mohist family, and Shen Ao, a Qianhu member of the imperial guard who was both good and evil, and together they explored the shocking conspiracy behind the "Jiuyousi". From the fierce sea battle against the Japanese in the southeast, to the iron-blooded lonely city at the northwest border; from the turbulent clouds in the Forbidden City, to the misty legends of the fairy mountains overseas, Lu Cang gradually discovered that the so-called "natural disaster" did not refer to martial arts, but was actually the erosion of the world's destiny by the greed, anger, ignorance, and suspicion of the human heart.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.