Sword Lord of the Mortal Realm

A sweeping epic of a humble mortal’s journey through a fantasy world...

The story begins with Li Dafang, a country boy burdened by a blood feud. Born without spiritual roots, he is told that his path to immortality is closed. By a twist of fate, he obtains a mysterious rusty sword and, in an ordinary mortal’s body, embarks on a path that defies heaven.

At the very bottom of the cultivation world, he relies on exceptional intelligence and unbreakable resolve. He comprehends the sword amid life and death and reasons his way through impossible predicaments, forging a path of the “Heart Sword” all his own. Yet as his power grows, demonic thoughts stir within him. His Daoist heart and demonic trials intertwine, making every step along the path of the “Sword Demon” a struggle.

As his sword rings across the land and he gradually uncovers the ancient secrets behind a war fought ten thousand years ago and the collapse of heaven and earth, he learns that he has become caught in the heart of a maelstrom where humans, demons, spirits, and witches coexist, and divine artifacts have fallen into ruin. The rusty sword’s true identity is the key to the world’s survival.

Will he become an immortal, or fall into demonic ways? No matter how he swings the sword in his hand, he cannot cut away every grudge and entanglement. At the final hour, he faces a choice beyond all others: merge with the Dao and reshape the cosmos!

This is the immortal tale of an ordinary man who cleaves open the chains of fate with an iron sword, gives the people a guiding heart, and becomes an eternal legend.