Shen Xiuliang, a young man from Cold Moon Town, ventures into the martial world with half of his family's ancestral jade pendant. On a rainy night at a ruined temple, he risks his life for the maiden in white, Xia Zhiyuan, and is drawn into a deadly conflict between the Heaven-Connecting Sect and the authorities.
He studies the Shadowless Sword under a blind master, yet turns into a lovesick fool whenever Miss Xia is around: bringing her warm wheat cakes, taking blows for her, and even asking, "Does Miss Su Yuan want to learn this?" before studying the footwork manual his master gave him. He crosses paths with the madcap Yan Kuangge, and the two become a team of "earnest lovesick fool and swaggering hothead." One dares to take on the authorities to protect the woman he loves; the other gets into one ridiculous scrape after another pursuing Su Yunxiu, the fairy of Penglai.
But Xia Zhiyuan's identity hides a shocking secret. Yan Kuangge's blade can cut down villains, but not through the knots of love, and even the gentle Su Yunxiu is wrapped in the mysteries of Penglai's illusionary realm. When the authorities' iron hooves march toward the Four Extremes, the Kunlun Sword, the Nanzhao Gu, the Loulan Sand Formation, and Penglai's Phantom Illusions all become deadly traps. Only then does Shen Xiuliang understand: the martial world means a sword that strikes three times faster when protecting her, a blade made an inch stronger when his brothers are by his side, and, above all, rising from the mud to use a rusty sword to topple the world's injustice!
Watch as the young man leaves the ruined temple, joining his brothers and protecting the woman he loves as he carves a bloody path through clashing blades and flashing swords, and overturns the rules that "hold the Four Extremes together and govern the martial world."
"If this martial world has no place for people of integrity, then I will shatter this hypocritical realm!"
