I Once Wielded a Sword in My Youth

Who hasn’t dreamed in their youth of roaming the world with a sword, becoming a peerless hero who can cleave mountains and seas with a single stroke?

In a small village in Yue, a four-year-old boy came across a martial arts novel and vowed to become a legendary hero just like the one in its pages. At five, he began practicing swordsmanship in the hills behind his home. Twelve years later, after his coming-of-age ceremony at seventeen, he left his hometown with a sword and seven taels of silver to wander the martial world.

He challenged the six great sects, single-handedly wiped out the Demon Cult, saved lives and took them, won and lost, and even let people down. Does the three-foot blade in his hand still swing for the same dream he began with?

As he traveled, he experienced love, friendship, betrayal, and helplessness, and saw the many faces of the world. He also encountered people clever enough to treat the whole world as a chessboard. After losing and gaining so much, what would become of the spirited young man he once was?

Many years later, a child innocently asked, “Father, when you were young, did you wander the martial world like the heroes in those books?” The child’s father laughed and replied, “Of course. In my youth, I too carried a sword and roamed the martial world!”