Treading Through Snow with a Broken Blade

Shen Guzhou, a swordsman with a broken blade, roams the martial world. His blade is missing three inches, yet it cuts more keenly than a whole one. A bloody case from twenty years ago, seven unmarked graves in the wilderness, and a missing copy of Flowing Cloud Manual draw the Demon Cult's Holy Maiden, the orphaned heir of the Murong clan, and a poison doctor turned assassin into a deadly whirlpool. A remark at the Drunken Immortal Tower, “Blood on your cuff,” sets off a chain of killings. On a snowy night at the Buried Sword Manor, a blood-red butterfly appears, leading to secrets of the former dynasty. As the court and the martial world wage a shadow war and a phantom in blue reappears, the truth reveals its horrifying edge only when the broken blade is reforged: the deadliest thing has never been the blade, but the human heart.