The Fragrant Sword

[The protagonist is a swordsman in his twilight years. After he begins cultivating, he will grow young again.]

"A mortal's life lasts a hundred years. Twenty are spent as someone's elder, ten for oneself, and forty for one's children and grandchildren. The remaining thirty can only be spent reminiscing about past regrets and recalling happier days. Rather than continue to waste away, why not risk everything for a chance at immortality, chase after the passing years, and grasp hold of time?"

This is the beginning of a hero's twilight years. Once famous throughout the land, the Youlan swordsman gave up martial arts and buried his sword to preserve stability at court, becoming a farmer and retreating into the common world.

He thought he could leave conflict behind for good. But in his old age, the renewal of an old feud and a deadly plot targeting someone from his past drew the treasured sword, its twin edges worn smooth by time, from its scabbard once more.

When it was all over, faced with the same question again, he looked back on this inexplicable life of his. The burden he'd borne for half his life, and the unfilial son he'd raised with all his heart and soul, finally let him answer with a sense of relief: "As a father, I have fulfilled my duty. As a husband, our vows of love are still unbroken, our promises yet unfulfilled. We should walk on together... On my journey to Guixu, I wish to bring one more person."

But his wife, the woman he had married in his youth, said, "Great hero, go no farther," then, "Take care." And so this journey to chase after time was destined to be made by one man and one sword alone.

When he had witnessed the warmth and coldness of the human world and come to understand his true heart, the long-sealed heart of the sword would reflect the Immortal Gate.

From that moment on, a name forgotten by the mortal world would contend on the path to immortality with an unmatched sword intent!