Black Sugar Heroes: The Seven-Star Killing Formation

A short retelling of the Black Sugar Heroes' classic-style story

The martial world secretly holds four martial arts academies in the east, west, south, and north. Together, they protect the secret manual of the Seven-Star Lethal Formation, which commands the universe. Linghu Cong and Lu Jianning of West City Academy have practiced swordsmanship together since childhood. Everyone praises Senior Brother Linghu's extraordinary talent, but no one knows that his seemingly gentle junior sister has already mastered both her family's sword style and the martial arts in ancient texts. She has simply always kept her abilities hidden.

One night, the evil cult launches a surprise attack on South City to seize the secret manual. With his dying breath, the East City headmaster passes his life's power to Guo Jing, a poor scholar, and entrusts him with protecting the manual. Linghu Cong happens upon them and saves Guo Jing. Lu Jianning quietly follows along, secretly driving off their pursuers without leaving a trace, so that he can escort Guo Jing safely back to his master.

The West City headmaster decides to train a "Seven-Star Heir" to oppose the evil cult's leader, Dongfang Bupai. The two then investigate the cult's whereabouts together. When bandits block their path, she first lures away their main force with a pebble, then lets Linghu Cong step forward and defeat the rest. When he hits a wall in his sword training, she offers a casual pointer that helps him suddenly comprehend the Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture. She understands the Dugu Swordplay in the ancient-texts pavilion, but gives him the incomplete scroll, making him the "core of the Seven Stars" in everyone's eyes. She herself stays behind the scenes, quietly correcting the flaws in the lethal formation.

In the final battle between good and evil, Linghu Cong activates the formation's central point to fight Dongfang Bupai. The evil leader suddenly uses a trick to break the formation. Only then does Lu Jianning draw her sword, defeating the evil technique with a single flash of her blade before sheathing it and retreating behind him. In the end, everyone follows Linghu Cong in defeating the evil leader and reclaiming the secret manual.

The martial world sings only of Linghu Cong's heroic deeds. Only he knows that from their childhood days together to their shared defense of the martial world, every escape from danger and every breakthrough was made possible by his childhood friend, his junior sister, who concealed her achievements and guarded him. She became an unspoken legend of the martial world.