After the Seven Swordsmen retired, the martial world faded into legend, its tales dwindling in teahouse storytellers’ voices, while nine spears pierced the dusk.
Yue Qingtian, Chu Canglang, Han Ye, and Su Ni of the Heavenly Spear Sect in Hebei set out from their mountain home with the “Blazing Plains Heart Method.”
The Lei brothers of Xiliang took bloody revenge with the “Thunder God Twin Spears.” The heroic couple Liu Jinghong and Lin Jiyue of Jiangnan defended the martial world together with their paired spears.
And then there was Yun Wujie, clad in plain cloth, whose light wooden spear concealed the secrets of carefree freedom.
When the Blood Lotus Cult began refining corpses with poisoned spears and the imperial Martial Affairs Bureau trampled chivalry beneath its iron hooves, these nine charged from their separate battlefields: the flames of Taihu Lake’s water stronghold, the scorched earth of Lei Family Fort, the Heavenly Spear Sect’s conspiracy, and the cries of children at the border. They converged amid the beacon fires of Tongguan, struck sparks, and formed the Blazing Plains Spear Alliance.
As a new storyteller rapped his block upon the table, the tale of “Nine Spears Burn the Snowy Mountain” began. Chivalry was never just a legend. It was someone wielding a spear as a torch, kindling a wildfire in the darkness.
