A bloodstained jade pendant, and he crawls back from hell to the world of the living;
a fleeting vision, and he swears to shake heaven and earth with a mortal’s bones!
Modern-day corporate drone Lin Feng opens his eyes to find himself reborn as Lin Mo, an ancient scholar whose family has been destroyed. His bones lie buried in the rotting mud of a dry well, and his enemies have come to finish him with a heavy crossbow. Only a bloodstained blue jade pendant in his arms glimmers with a faint light in his desperate plight.
In a poisonous ravine, the mysterious, lame old farmer Feng Qingyang drives back his enemies with a single palm strike. A dead branch cracks stone as he warns him:
“Martial arts are meant to protect the Way, not to flaunt one’s strength. If your heart is unclear, the greater your power, the greater the calamity!”
He lies low and trains bitterly. Tortoise Breath keeps him alive; Fleeting Shadow walks the line between life and death! Just as he uses a cunning knot to tighten a rope around a corrupt official’s throat, poisoned crossbow bolts seal off the mountain like a downpour!
To protect his disciple, Feng Qingyang faces the arrow storm alone, his dragon-like roar resounding through the secluded ravine:
“I stand here! What specter dares trespass on my territory?!”
Lin Mo flees into the poisonous mists with a medicine pouch on his back, carrying unanswered questions with him:
Why do the runes on the blue jade pendant flow and shift? Who wounded his master so badly that he coughs blood? What does the “Chancellor” really want: the jade pendant, or the astonishing secret bought with the lives of the entire Lin family?
At the imperial examination, he uses modern thinking to break a thousand-year-old deadlock;
a princess takes an interest in him, but he is drawn into a chain of deadly traps at court!
From a poor scholar to a new favorite before the emperor, from bones in the mud to a place among the clouds, this path is destined to be washed clean with the blood of vengeance, paved with ingenuity, and cleared of every injustice in the land with his fleeting, dazzling blade!
◇ Every blockbuster element in one story ◇
✓ A desperate comeback: fleeing through a dry well and poisonous mists, then training his bones deep in the mountains
✓ An overpowered golden finger: modern logic to beat the imperial exams, plus Fleeting Shadow martial arts to outwit political schemers
✓ A forbidden romance: a brilliant princess and a powerful minister from a humble family join hands in the abyss
✓ A storm of foreshadowing: blue jade runes, the master’s old wound, an orphan girl’s blood letter, and the Divine Machinery Battalion’s crossbows
✓ Relentless pacing: a life-or-death crisis in every chapter, a climactic twist in every volume!
