The Ancient Broken Sword: Tianya

The Broken Sword at the Edge of the World

The Broken Sword at the Edge of the World is a gripping wuxia saga set in the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, an age of upheaval and uncertainty, where heroes abound but danger lurks everywhere. The court is corrupt, rebel armies rise across the land, and the various forces of the martial world struggle to survive in the narrow space between power and principle. Their interests are deeply entangled, and the situation is ever-shifting and treacherous.

The protagonist, Lin Feng, is the son of the chief escort of the Zhenyuan Escort Agency in Qingping Town. When he is ten, his family is suddenly massacred one night. Mysterious black-clad men slaughter everyone at the agency, and his loved ones are killed. Shielded by his father at the cost of his life, Lin Feng escapes through fire and blood with half of his ancestral sword in hand, embarking on a thorny path of revenge.

During his flight, Lin Feng endures hardship after hardship. He is ambushed in the mountains and forests, fights a giant serpent for his life, and teeters on the brink of death several times before being rescued by the Medicine Immortal, an old man living in seclusion in a valley. For the next several years, Lin Feng devotes himself to training under the old man, studying medicine and honing his martial arts. He becomes highly skilled with the sword and masters techniques such as Cloudstride and the Threefold Phantom Sword. He grows from a helpless orphan into a formidable young man, yet he knows how vast the martial world is and how hard his enemies will be to find. His only choice is to roam the world with his sword.

After leaving the valley, Lin Feng plunges into the muddy waters of the martial world and becomes entangled in rivalries among the sects, which scheme and fight openly and covertly to claim the position of Martial Alliance Leader. He makes a name for himself with his broken sword. Meanwhile, the rebel war against the Yuan grows ever more desperate, and with the fate of the nation at stake, he must choose where he stands. Along this storm-tossed road, he meets a beloved confidante who shares life and death with him, and makes sworn brothers whose loyalty knows no bounds. Yet clues to his enemies appear and vanish, and whenever he draws close to the truth, an even greater conspiracy looms. With his broken sword in hand, Lin Feng faces the great causes of the martial world and the...