Xu Liang, the great hero of his generation, retired from the martial world due to illness. With Prince Zhao Jue of Xiangyang brought to justice, the Western Xia Sword Demon, Qi Jian Xiao Mo Tian, emerged from seclusion to avenge his sworn elder brother, Zhao Jue, and slaughtered his way through Mount Emei. The three great leaders of the martial world joined forces, yet still proved no match for his Xiao Mo sword technique. In the bloody battle, Bai Chun was killed, and the heroes retreated into a cave. At this moment of mortal danger, Xu Mingyuan, the Golden-Backed Sword Howler and son of Xu Liang, the Wild Goose of Shanxi, shouldered his father's still-unhealed internal injuries and the fate of the martial world, and set out on a quest to find a sword that could defeat the demon.
He searched for his senior brother on Nanji Island, gained new insights into swordsmanship overseas, and received a fragment of a lost manual beneath a scattering of peach blossoms. But on the brink of discovering the truth, he uncovered the shocking secret that Xiao Mo Tian had murdered his master and stolen the manual. Meanwhile, a traitor within the imperial court sowed chaos, while Western Xia's “Lion-Beast Extinction Formation” bore down on them, driving both the martial world and the empire toward the abyss. Could Xu Mingyuan, at the end of his rope, combine the Immortal Sword of Demon Mountain with the essence of Emei and create the supreme martial art capable of countering the Xiao Mo Sword? The final duel between the two swords atop Huashan's Thousand-Foot Plank Road would also reveal the ultimate answer to the hundred-year-old grudge involving Miao Sheng, the Shadowless Divine Leg... After the final duel ended, who could have guessed that fresh turmoil would once again sweep through the martial world, sparking new conflict…
Why don't you tell all the four great swordsmen of the Emei Sect who is Dao Tiangu's disciple? Who is Bai Xiaotian? Looks confused