Master of the Four Sacred Swords of Shanhai

A swordsmanship prodigy begins as the “harbinger of calamity” in the Shanhai Era. A disaster-bringing green snake that everyone avoids, and a good-for-nothing bond mocked by the whole village. In this life, Lu Ming doesn’t cultivate a swordsman’s heart or temper a swordsman’s bones. He raises snakes.

In his previous life, he was the brightest rising star of the Heavenly Sword Sect, until his fellow disciples conspired against him and he fell to his death. In this life, his soul transmigrates into the Shanhai Era, where he becomes an orphan at the foot of Mount Buzhou, abandoned by his parents and raised by his aunt. On the day he turns ten, when all the children go hunting beasts like Zheng and Wenwen birds, he rescues a little green snake with golden markings on its forehead, a snake everyone avoids.

The villagers say, “That snake is descended from Fei. Wherever it goes, the water dries up and the grass withers. It’s a harbinger of disaster!” His classmates say, “With that thing by your side, you’ll never amount to anything.”

Lu Ming only smiles and strokes the snake’s cold scales. Nobody knows that a wisp of his innate sword intent is being nurtured in his dantian. Nobody knows that the golden markings on the “green snake’s” forehead are a sign that its Azure Dragon bloodline is awakening. And nobody knows that the bond between him and the snake will overturn the ironclad rule of the era: “humans control beasts.”

When the Four Sacred Beasts gather and the bones of the mountains and seas ring out, people finally realize that the “good-for-nothing” with the calamity beast is rewriting the laws of the Shanhai world with the kingly sword in his hand.

[Sword-and-beast style: Make your body the heart of the sword, and the beast its bones.]

[In this life, my path is called symbiosis.]