When the clear ring of bamboo swords cuts through the blood-red night over a mountain village, and a stunning sword flash blooms bloodstained deep within the bamboo grove, a thousand-year calamity spanning the martial world and the imperial court slowly unfolds along two shattered jade pendants. This is the story of Chu Yichen and Su Yao, and also an epic tale of the entire martial world caught between schemes and true feelings.
[The martial world is a game, and all living beings are pieces on the board]
After a massacre wipes out his family, the young Chu Yichen enters the martial world and joins Bamboo Sword Manor, where he learns the bamboo sword's heart method, “use stillness to overcome motion.” Yet amid the flashing blades on the streets of Luoyang, he crosses paths with the stunning swordplay of Su Yao, a heroine from a prestigious family. One is a lone survivor bearing the grudge of a murdered village; the other is the lost daughter of the Su family, whose origins are shrouded in mystery. The thread of fate between them was already foreshadowed by the broken jade pendants around their necks. They are the keys to the Taixuan Scripture, which can be made whole as a Taiji Diagram, and part of a plan laid by their fathers twenty years ago to protect the righteous path of the martial world.
The Black Shadow Pavilion's black crow iron token heralds death, unleashing a storm of blood across the martial world: gang warfare, the overthrow of the imperial court, the appearance of secret martial arts manuals... While investigating, Chu Yichen is shocked to discover that his father was once a core member of the Black Shadow Pavilion, and that Su Yao's plum-blossom jade pendant complements his own broken jade, yin and yang. When the two join their jade pieces before the Buddha at White Horse Temple, the resulting projection of a fragment of the Taixuan Scripture reveals not only the secrets of the pinnacle of martial arts, but also a startling connection between the imperial jade seal and the land's dragon veins. It turns out that the revenge born of a massacre was, from the very beginning, a contest between pieces in a vortex of power.
[Love's path is fraught with hardship; love and hate alike become the fire that tempers the sword]
Amid flashing blades, Chu Yichen takes a poisoned blow to protect Su Yao, while the clear chime of the silver bells in her hair can calm the murderous intent surging within him. Amid the mysteries of an old mansion
