The snow in Zhongnan Mountain has fallen for ten years, crushing the broken walls and freezing the sword tomb, but it could not freeze the dead peach tree.
In the third winter when Lin Yanqiu picked up the rusty sword, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, half a blood-stained peach blossom penetrated the wind and snow and hung in front of the tip of her nose. She clearly remembered that the peach tree that was struck by lightning should have rotted in the snow with its roots ten years ago.
The accountant's calculations were crackling, and there was a hint of urgency that she had never heard in his tone as he urged her to pay back the charcoal money. Senior Brother Chu, who was dressed in white and covered with snow, dangled his sword lightly, but for a certain moment, the shadow reflected on the snow was like smoke blown away by the wind.
When the rusty sword faded away, revealing its white bones, and when the blood drops on the peach petals condensed into strange symbols in the snow, she was shocked to realize that the people around her were no longer human.
The "Broken Sword Furnace" catastrophe ten years ago melted the pride of thousands of sword cultivators, but carved an immortal sword contract on her wrist. The talking cat with different eyes is the sword guardian, the blood-stained sachet contains the name of the traitor, and every drop of dark red juice seeping out of the hole of the dead peach tree is the blood of the sword soul before it cools down.
When Brother Chu's sword pierced her shoulder, she saw that there were no pupils in his eyes, only a bottomless blackness; when Mr. Accountant's dagger was stained with blood, she realized that the mark similar to hers was the mark of loyalty branded with ten years of forbearance.
"Don't trust women wearing silver bracelets." The last words of the old accountant were still floating in the wind and snow. She had already grasped the new "Questioning Heart" sword and stepped into the deeper fog.
The peach forest weeps blood, and the blade breaks through the remaining snow. She is the orphan girl left behind by the sword master, the vessel chosen by the sword soul, and even Lin Yan who was involved in the conspiracy.
