The day the Star-Picking Sword Pavilion fell, his heaven-gifted senior brother burned through the stars of the eight directions, only to die in a bitter defeat.
He stumbled down the mountain, with scorching karmic flames blazing behind him!
A cowherd boy and a blind girl clutching his sleeve.
-- "Immortal master... can you teach me how to move mountains?" -- "Master, there's a sword crying in your heart."
And his former junior sister was rubbing blood-red rouge onto her lips, smiling as she accepted her enemy's betrothal gifts in the Moon-Burial Sect's Bright Moon Palace.
Years later,
The cowherd boy bore three mountains and five peaks on his back, while the blind girl saw through a thousand layers of phantom moons.
Chen Sanjiu pointed his sword at the sky:
"Senior Brother, watch this move...!"
(Traditional fantasy + sword cultivation + no System + no mindless plot + smart characters)
A smart sword-cultivator master, a steady-minded martial artist disciple named A Tu, and a cold-blooded young assassin, the girl disciple Ling Nuan.