In the mid-years of the Great Yin dynasty, the court grew lax, regional warlords carved up the land, and forces in the martial world became entangled. To the north, the “Black Ice Pavilion” held the cold deserts as it watched the Central Plains. To the south, the “Flame Heaven Palace” used its fiery arts to dominate the southern frontier. In the Central Plains, Wudang and Shaolin were the leading schools, though rifts were quietly emerging between them. A hundred years ago, Ouyang Changeng, a descendant of the legendary swordsmith Ou Yezi, forged the Moon-Washing Sword, which could shatter any weapon in the world. But he mysteriously disappeared on the very day the sword was completed, plunging the martial world into conflict.
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