The martial world is vast and elusive, its grudges endless. Some revel in settling scores amid the flash of blades, while others lose themselves in boundless hatred. The young Li Xingzhou enters the martial world, changing from a callow youth into someone cold and resolute as he pursues the truth and a path to revenge. But the martial world is more than swords and blades: it hides the court’s far-reaching schemes and the tangled workings of the human heart. Buffeted by ill fortune, he struggles constantly between love and duty, vengeance and hate, until he finally discovers that the martial world itself is a dream from which no one can awaken.
