In the middle years of the Dahua era, word spread throughout the martial world that the Guiyun Sword Manual was the greatest sword manual in the land. Whoever obtained it could master peerless arts and become invincible. There were also rumors that the manual concealed a world-shaking secret.
The Western Regions Demon Cult and the orthodox sects of the Central Plains learned that the Guiyun Sword Manual was hidden in the ancestral shrine at Guiyun Manor.
Guiyun Manor was a centuries-old family estate in Jiangnan. Regardless of its reputation, its status as a house with a hundred years of history meant that no one in the Dahua dynasty dared cause trouble at the Yun family’s home, let alone ask to see the Guiyun Sword Manual.
In the seventh year of Tianbao, during the middle years of the Dahua era, the Yun family welcomed a baby boy and named him Yun Shu.
When Yun Shu turned one, the Yun family held a banquet for their friends in the martial world, who had come to celebrate his first-birthday tradition of choosing objects.
After the banquet ended and the guests had departed, the entire Yun family was wiped out in a single night.
They say that night, half the sky over Jiangnan turned red, and the stench of burning corpses spread for ten miles around Yun Family Fort. It became a famous unsolved mystery in the martial world and even attracted the attention of the authorities, but in the end, nothing came of it. The Guiyun Sword Manual vanished without a trace...
