Shadows of the Startling Blade

One card tossed Lu Zhanqiu, a night-shift security guard in the Federation, into a brutal martial world where people devour one another.

Others spend ten years mastering the blade. He only has to touch one to learn. [Blade God Talent: Master every blade technique instantly, regardless of learning requirements.]

He crawls out of the slave camp's shackles, kills the overseer with one slash, and carves his way to the Innate Realm, until no one in Jiangnan Circuit dares speak his name.

But he soon discovers one thing:

His blade has never lost. It's every game that he's lost.

Han Yutang uses him to kill. Jiang Tieshan treats him as bait. Scarface Liu uses his blade to settle scores. Even the child beside him who calls him "Big Brother" was planted as a spy from the very beginning.

No matter how fast the blade, it can't reach the players moving the pieces.

So he decides to stop cutting. He'll flip the table instead.

To the one hiding behind the scenes: you'd better pray you're tough enough to survive.

At twenty-three, he is a second-class citizen of the Federation.

That label weighs on him as heavily as the word "orphan."

The social security rating System is a good thing, at least for certain people.