The Martial World Pawnshop

Wuxia, the Martial World, No Female Lead, Got It?

I have just one request: please, no female lead!

Wuxia Stories About Roaming the World with a Sword, with a Decent Plot

Please, can some expert help me out?

Novels With Vast Worlds, Undercurrents Between Factions, and Racial Rivalries

Stories with expansive worldbuilding, multiple plotlines, plenty of foreshadowing, and conflicts between many factions, like *The Legend of the Evil Heroes*, *Beast Blood Boiling*, and *City in the Apocalypse*. Any genre is fine.

The Protagonist Runs a Pawnshop That Takes Anything as Collateral

Opening a Shop with a System: A Mysterious Pawnshop Where Anything Can Be Traded

A pawnshop or store where people can trade their lifespan. Ideally, it has a System or was inherited as a mysterious shop.

I Miss the Fantasy Stories of the Past. I Want to Read Some, but Can’t Find Any

I want the more traditional kind of fantasy novel, where the protagonist advances step by step toward the peak of the Great Dao.

Male Lead in a Wuxia World: Jianghu, Court Politics, and Royalty. No Female Lead

Highly skilled in martial arts, cold and aloof, exceptionally resourceful, and of noble birth, similar in character and background to Xiao Se from The Blood of Youth.