Synopsis of The Soul of the Heaven-Shattering Arrow:
In the seventeenth year of Yonghe, the Black Wolf Tribe's iron cavalry shattered the peace of the northern borderlands of the Great Yong.
On the night his family was massacred at Cangyun Pass, the young Xiao Han awakened the ancient archery art Falling Star. Bearing a bloodstained bronze arrowhead and the mystery of his clan's destruction, he joined the frontier army's Black Armor Battalion. He soon discovered that this war was far more than a conflict between Hu and Han: the Black Wolf Tribe's Great Chanyu, Wuwei, needed Xiao blood to unlock the evil bow Moon Devourer; the corrupt court was secretly colluding with the enemy to seize military power; and the Scarlet Flame Cult, lying in wait in the Western Regions, was using firearms to overturn the rules of the cold-weapon age.
The avenger's arrow will eventually fly toward the wheel of fate.
From the flames of war on the frontier to the mighty ships of the Eastern Sea, from grassland alliances to the mysteries of imperial tombs, Xiao Han forms a pact to the death with Yan Qingli, a prodigy of mechanical crossbows, and Alanduo, a grassland warrior. They burn siege towers with a rain of fire arrows, pierce the sea fog with the Wind-Listening Archery Art, and hack a path to safety for three thousand refugees amid an avalanche. But when Wuwei uses the Moon Devourer bow to summon a blood moon, and the Scarlet Flame Cult sends ironclad ships to bombard the frontier, Xiao Han must face a cruel choice: using the ancestral divine bow Falling Star will cost him years of his life. And the price of protecting others cuts far deeper than revenge.
This is the final song of the cold-weapon age.
Schemes and passion intertwine, tradition and change collide. As firearms thunder across the battlefield, Xiao Han proves his way with his own flesh and blood:
