Who Says the Jianghu Is Only for the Young?

Spring Beneath the Blade

The day young executioner Chen Xiaoman first gripped a ghost-head saber, a condemned prisoner slipped him half a jade pendant and said just one thing: "Take a look at spring in Jiangnan for me." When the execution drum sounded for the third time, he dropped his saber and fled over the wall. From then on, the martial world had a new fugitive who couldn't fight but was hunted by everyone, accompanied by a blind zither player who loved cracking sunflower seeds and a fake monk who could only recite scriptures wrong. The jade pendant concealed the truth behind a massacre from twenty years ago, and every clue pointed to Peach Blossom Ferry, a place said to see a headless corpse drift ashore every spring. Chen Xiaoman didn't want to be a hero. He just wanted to make it to Jiangnan alive and see the flowers bloom for a dead man.