In the final years of the Jiajing era of the Great Ming, the court is ruled jointly by the Grand Secretariat chancellors who compose green-word memorials and the Embroidered Uniform Guard. In the martial world, immortal sects hide among ordinary people, using the dragon veins as furnaces to refine the elixir of immortality. Common folk know only of flashing blades and rivers of blood. They have no idea that the last true master of the Embroidered Spring Sabre has already turned its edge toward the gods and Buddhas filling the heavens.
