The Sword Emperor, the Sacred God

Li Yichen, the world’s greatest assassin, is betrayed by the employer he trusted most, has the blade-pattern marking of his fate carved out, and is imprisoned on Heartburn Cliff. After obtaining the Heartburn Blade Cup left behind by his mother, he awakens the art of tempering blades with baleful energy: he can devour a thousand baleful forces to forge a blade and turn shadows into bone. When he ventures into the Cangwu Secret Realm under cover of night, carrying his baleful aura, the blood pool in the Baleful Abyss reveals the sacrificial formations of the Nine Great Traditions. And he himself turns out to be the “vessel of calamity” chosen by the Heavenly Dao...