The waves carry a lone boat close to the heavens, while moonlight falls on a thousand mountains, where the path to the Dao is hard to find.
The jianghu is riven by strife, and people are like waves. Since ancient times, how many have returned from debating the Dao?
In the Sword World, an inconspicuous realm among countless clans and worlds, one sword, two brothers, and three generations set off a saga of grudges and rivalries in the jianghu.
A hundred years ago, the Demon Lord Jiang Feng used his demonic sword to overpower all his rivals and dominate an era. After Jiang Feng passed away, the nine great sects joined forces and stormed the sacred mountain of the demonic cult. The demonic sword vanished without a trace.
Thirty years later, the demonic sword resurfaced in the jianghu, igniting a new conflict.
Seeking revenge, Jiang Chou found himself at odds with his benefactor, Daoist Tianqing.
They clashed time and again, enemies yet kindred spirits.
Daoist Tianqing took Li Nu as his disciple. Though Li Nu had mediocre talent, he was blessed with extraordinary luck and possessed an innocent heart.
One opportunity after another came Li Nu’s way. He met Zhang Youyuan, the male lead, and others, and they swore brotherhood.
While being hunted, Jiang Chou killed the entire family of Yang Jiujue, the Hermit of Nine Absolutes, then secretly entrusted his son, Zhang Youyuan, to Yang Jiujue to raise.
Using his sworn daughter Ye Feiyan, whom he had planted inside the Wangyue Sect, Jiang Chou deliberately drew close to Zhang Youyuan and gradually steered him toward the demonic cult.
Thus, Zhang Youyuan was caught between his birth father and adoptive father, between the Dao and the demonic path, and suffered greatly.
With help from Mu Xueqin, the female lead, he tried to leave the jianghu behind, but Jiang Chou repeatedly set traps that led Mu Xueqin to misunderstand him.
On their wedding day, when the truth came out, Mu Xueqin nearly killed Zhang Youyuan by mistake.
When Jiang Chou sacrificed himself and used the demonic cult’s secret arts to bring Zhang Youyuan back to life, everything had gone according to Jiang Chou’s plan.
Zhang Youyuan fell into darkness and gravely wounded Daoist Tianqing. After his subordinate, the Righteous Demon, ambushed and killed Tianqing, Zhang Youyuan and Li Nu, his sworn brother who had weathered countless hardships alongside him, became enemies.
With the brothers on opposing sides and new opportunities arising at every turn, the day of the Nine Peaks Dao Debate brings them to the ultimate showdown: Zhang Youyuan, the new Demon Lord, against Li Nu, the new leader of the Daoist sects.
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