The martial world is a battlefield, where grudges are settled with abandon.
Jiang Han was born a lowly slave in the fighting arena of Shuofeng City, and from childhood bore the burden of the Blood Robe Tower’s slaughter of his family. In a fight to the death, he unexpectedly awakened the remnant soul of an ancient divine weapon, the Cangming Halberd. Taken in as a disciple by Ye Wuya, master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, he learned peerless martial arts that turned poetry into the way of the halberd. With sweeping strokes like splashed ink, he cut down armies; with his long halberd, he raised a lantern to question the moon. He wielded the halberd as a brush, writing a tale of slaughter across the martial world, yet on his path of revenge became trapped in a vortex of power and killing.
The Blood Robe Tower’s pursuit, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s schemes, the Northern Wastes tribes pressing against the border... The martial world was in turmoil, and all living beings were pieces on a chessboard. When his beloved master’s betrayal revealed the cruel truth behind the divine halberd that guarded the nation’s fate, when his sworn enemy Xiao Qianjue sought enlightenment through slaughter, and when Ling Xue, the Northern Wastes’ saintess, gave her life for peace, the halberd in Jiang Han’s hands no longer rang out for revenge alone.
Body Tempering, Astral Force Condensation, Void Shattering: at the pinnacle of the martial path, does one find invincible power that can shatter the void, or a heart that uses the halberd as a shield to protect others?
This single strike can cut down every foe, and cleave through chaos; this battle is fought for vengeance, and to end the wars that plague the world.
The martial world has no halberds: the human heart itself is the halberd.
When the divine weapon sinks into the abyss and legend fades, only the way of the hero remains, disappearing into the light.
